The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.
Gertrude SteinPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude SteinIf 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.
Gertrude Stein