Meandering in the garden . . .

Today is the birthday of Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946), writer and poet.

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"
— Gertrude Stein

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."
— Gertrude Stein

"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."
— Gertrude Stein

"A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables."
— Gertrude Stein

"If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
— Gertrude Stein

"Whenever you get there, there is no there there."
— Gertrude Stein

"You have to know what you want to get it."
— Gertrude Stein

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