Tender Buttons Quotes

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“A FEATHER.

A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“A light white, a disgras, an ink spot, a rosy charm.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a little less hot. - Red roses.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. - A substance in a cushion”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“A piece of crystal. A change, in a change that is remarkable there is no reason to say that there was a time.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“Act so that there is no use in a center.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“Sugar is not a vegetable.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“There is no use in a smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything, there is no use at all and the respect is mutual.

Why should that which is uneven, that which is resumed, that which is tolerable why should all this resemble a smell, a thing is there, it whistles, it is not narrower, why is there no obligation to stay away and yet courage, courage is everywhere and the best remains to stay.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“replacing a casual aquaintance with an ordinary daughter does not make a son.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“Cloudiness what is cloudiness, is it a lining, is it a roll, is it melting.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“When is there some discharge when. There never is.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“What is a nail. A nail is unison.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, a piece was left over. The rest was mismanaged.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“The care with which there is incredible justice and likeness, all this makes a magnificent asparagus, and also a fountain.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“A seal and matches and a swan and ivy and a suit.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“বাড়িটা চাঁদের আলোয় ঝিলমিল করছিল
বাড়িটা চাঁদের আলোয় ঝিলমিল করছিল ।
আর তার মধ্যে ঝিলমিল করছিল আহ্লাদ,
আমার খুকি উজ্বল ।
আহ্লাদে ঝিলমিল বাড়ির ভেতরে ঝিলমিল
চাঁদের আলোর সঙ্গে,
আমার খুকিকে আশীর্বাদ করো আমার খুকিকে আশীর্বাদ করো উজ্বল,
আ্‌লাদে ঝিলমিল আমার খুকিকে আশীর্বাদ করো
বাড়ির মধ্যে চাঁদের আলোয় ঝিলমিল।
ওর প্রিয় বর উল্লসিত হতে ভালোবাসে যখন ভাবে
আর সে সব সময়েই ভাবে যখন জানতে পারে আর সে সব সময়
জানে যে ওর আশীর্বাদপুত বউই এখানে যাকিছু আর ও পুরোটাই
ওর বউয়ের, আর তার সঙ্গে সেঁটে থাকে আশীর্বাদপূত খুকির মতন ।
যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম, পিকাসোর একটা সম্পন্ন প্রতিকৃতি
আমি যদি ওকে বলতুম ও কি পছন্দ করত । ও কি পছন্দ করত যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম।
ও কি পছন্দ করত যদি নেপোলিয়ান হতেন নেপোলিয়ান হতেন হতেন ও পচন্দ করত।
যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি ওকে বলতুম যদি বলতুম যদি নেপোলিয়ান । ও কি পছন্দ করত যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম যদি বলতুম যদি নেপোলিয়ান । ও কি পছন্দ করত যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম । যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি নেপোলিয়ান যদি ওকে বলতুম । যদি ওকে বলতুম ও কি পছন্দ করত ও কি পচন্দ করত যদি আমি ওকে বলতুম ।
এখন ।
এখন নয় ।
আর এখন ।
এখন ।
ঠিক যেমন যেমন রাজারা ।
পুরোটা অনুভব করতে পারে ।
রাজাদের মতন হুবহু ।
তাই তোমাকে খোঁজা”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“A Light in the Moon"

A light in the moon the only light is on Sunday. What was the sensible decision. The sensible decision was that notwithstanding many declarations and more music, not even notwithstanding the choice and a torch and a collection, notwithstanding the celebrating hat and a vacation and even more noise than cutting, notwithstanding Europe and Asia and being overbearing, not even notwithstanding an elephant and a strict occasion, not even withstanding more cultivation and some seasoning, not even with drowning and with the ocean being encircling, not even with more likeness and any cloud, not even with terrific sacrifice of pedestrianism and a special resolution, not even more likely to be pleasing. The care with which the rain is wrong and the green is wrong and the white is wrong, the care with which there is a chair and plenty of breathing. The care with which there is incredible justice and likeness, all this makes a magnificent asparagus, and also a fountain.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons