. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
Gertrude SteinRead
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that things are what they are, regardless of interpretation or context.
Gertrude Stein's repetitive phrase, 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,' suggests that a rose remains a rose, symbolizing the idea of identity and the essence of objects. Stein's work often explores the nature of language and meaning, and in this quote, she hints at the simplicity and clarity of perception, urging us to accept things as they are without overcomplicating our understanding.
In practice
This quote can be used in an art class to discuss the role of perception in understanding artwork.
. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
Because hereβs the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.
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