Gertrude Stein Quotes About Losing

Quotes about: Losing

• You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mud Puddles, Losing, Moral

  Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971) "Q.E.D." (1903) bk. 1

• Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

  Gertrude Stein

  Strong, Leaving, Suffering

• Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
  with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring
  with replacing the noun. It is doing that always
  doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.
  Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and
  pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is
  what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no
  matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a
  great many kinds of poetry.

  Gertrude Stein

  Poetry, Doe, Nouns

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”

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