. . . 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.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes that creativity can be pursued at any moment, not just during specific circumstances.
Gertrude Stein's quote, 'Any time is the time to make a poem,' suggests that the act of creation is not bound by special occasions or moods. It encourages individuals to embrace their creative impulses and express themselves whenever inspiration strikes, highlighting the idea that artistic expression is always accessible and can be cultivated in everyday life.
Themes
CreativityArtPoetryExpressionInspiration
In practice
Example use cases
A teacher encouraging students to write poetry during a creative writing workshop.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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