A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
Gertrude SteinThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
Gertrude SteinThere is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
Gertrude Stein