Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

• Her style is repetitive, playful, humorous:
• "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."
• "Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle."
• "The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a vegetable."

Stanzas in Meditation

Part I, Stanza XIII

She may count three little saisies very well
By multiplying to either six nine or fourteen
Or she can be well mentioned as twelve
Which they may like which they can like soon
Or more than ever which they wish as a button
Just as much as they arrange which they wish
Or they can attire where they need as which say
Can they call a hat or a hat a day
Made merry because it is so.

Part V, Stanza XXXVIII

Which I wish to say is this
There is no beginning to an end
But there is a beginning and an end
To beginning.
Why yes of course.
Any one can learn that north of course
Is not only north but north as north
Why were they worried.
What I wish to say is this.
Yes of course.