Antológia a huszadik századi amerikai költészetből [antikvár]

GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946) From POETRY AND GRAMMAR WHAT is poetry and if y ou know what poetry is what is prose. There is no use in telling more than you know, no not even if you do not know it. But do you do you know what prose is and do you know what poetry is. I have said that the words in plays written in poetry are more lively than the same words written by the same poet in other kinds of poetry. It undoubtedly was true of Shakespeare, is it inevitably true of everybody. That is one thing to think about. I said that the words in a play written in prose are not as lively words as the words writteft in other prose by the same writer. This is true of Goldsmith and I imagine it is true of almost any writer. There again there is something to know. One of the things that is a very interesting thing to know is how you are feeling inside you to the words that are Coming out to be outside of you. Do you always have the same kind of feeling in relation to the sounds as the words come out of you or do you not. All this has no mu eh to do with grammar and with poetry and with prose. Words have to do everything in poetry and prose and some writers write more in articles and prépositions and some say you should write in nouns, and of course one has to think of everything. A noun is a name of anything, why after a thing is named write about it. A name is adequate or it is not. If it is adequate then why go on calling it, if it is not then calling it by its name does.no good. People if you like to believe it can be made by their names. Cali anybody Paul and they get to be a Paul cali anybody Alice and they get to be an Alice perhaps 3'es perhaps no, there is something in that, but gener-ally speaking, things once they are named the name does not go on doing anything to them and so why write in nouns. Nouns are the name of anything and just naming names is alright when you want to cali a roll but is it any good for anything else. To be sure in many places in Europe as in America they do like to cali rolls. As I say a noun is a name of a thing, and therefore slowly if you feel what is inside that thing you do not call it by the name by which it is known. Everybody knows that by the way they do when they are in love and a writer should always have that intensity of emotion about whatever is the object about which he writes. And therefore and I say it again more and more one does not use nouns.