{"id":231,"date":"2021-08-06T12:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exit78.com\/poems\/?p=231"},"modified":"2021-08-06T13:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T13:27:37","slug":"sacred-emily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exit78.com\/poems\/sacred-emily\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Emily"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n\n\n\n
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by Gertrude Stein<\/strong>, 1913
\n(first appeared in Geography and Plays<\/em>1<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

\"Sacred<\/a>Compose compose beds.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wives of great men rest tranquil.<\/span><\/div>\n
Come go stay philip philip.<\/span><\/div>\n
Egg be takers.<\/span><\/div>\n
Parts of place nuts.<\/span><\/div>\n
Suppose twenty for cent.<\/span><\/div>\n
It is rose in hen.<\/span><\/div>\n
Come one day.<\/span><\/div>\n
A firm terrible a firm terrible hindering, a firm terrible hindering have a ray nor pin nor. <\/span><\/div>\n
Egg in places.<\/span><\/div>\n
Egg in few insists.<\/span><\/div>\n
In set a place.<\/span><\/div>\n
I am not missing.<\/span><\/div>\n
Who is a permit.<\/span><\/div>\n
I love honor and obey I do love honor and obey I do. <\/span><\/div>\n
Melancholy do lip sing.<\/span><\/div>\n
How old is he.<\/span><\/div>\n
Murmur pet murmur pet murmur.<\/span><\/div>\n
Push sea push sea push sea push sea push sea push sea push sea push sea.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sweet and good and kind to all.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wearing head.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cousin tip nicely.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cousin tip.<\/span><\/div>\n
Nicely.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wearing head.<\/span><\/div>\n
Leave us sit.<\/span><\/div>\n
I do believe it will finish, I do believe it will finish. <\/span><\/div>\n
Pat ten patent, Pat ten patent.<\/span><\/div>\n
Eleven and eighteen.<\/span><\/div>\n
Foolish is foolish is.<\/span><\/div>\n
Birds measure birds measure stores birds measure
\nstores measure birds measure. <\/span><\/div>\n
Exceptional firm bites.<\/span><\/div>\n
How do you do I forgive you everything and there is nothing to forgive.<\/span><\/div>\n
Never the less.<\/span><\/div>\n
Leave it to me.<\/span><\/div>\n
Weeds without papers.<\/span><\/div>\n
Weeds without papers are necessary.<\/span><\/div>\n
Left again left again.<\/span><\/div>\n
Exceptional considerations.<\/span><\/div>\n
Never the less tenderness.<\/span><\/div>\n
Resting cow curtain.<\/span><\/div>\n
Resting bull pin.<\/span><\/div>\n
Resting cow curtain.<\/span><\/div>\n
Resting bull pin.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to a frame.<\/span><\/div>\n
The only hat hair.<\/span><\/div>\n
Leave us mass leave us.\u00a0 Leave us pass.\u00a0 Leave us. Leave us pass leave us. <\/span><\/div>\n
Humming is.<\/span><\/div>\n
No climate.<\/span><\/div>\n
What is a size.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ease all I can do.<\/span><\/div>\n
Colored frame.<\/span><\/div>\n
Couple of canning.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ease all I can do.<\/span><\/div>\n
Humming does as<\/span><\/div>\n
Humming does as humming is.<\/span><\/div>\n
What is a size.<\/span><\/div>\n
No climate.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ease all I can do.<\/span><\/div>\n
Shall give it, please to give it.<\/span><\/div>\n
Like to give it, please to give it.<\/span><\/div>\n
What a surprise.<\/span><\/div>\n
Not sooner whether.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cordially yours.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pause.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cordially yours.<\/span><\/div>\n
Not sooner together.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cordially yours.<\/span><\/div>\n
In strewing, in strewing.<\/span><\/div>\n
That is the way we are one and indivisible.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pay nuts renounce.<\/span><\/div>\n
Now without turning around.<\/span><\/div>\n
I will give them to you tonight.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cunning is and does cunning is and does the most
\nbeautiful notes.<\/span><\/div>\n
I would like a thousand most most.<\/span><\/div>\n
Center pricking petunia.<\/span><\/div>\n
Electrics are tight electrics are white electrics are
\na button.<\/span><\/div>\n
Singular pressing.<\/span><\/div>\n
Recent thimble.<\/span><\/div>\n
Noisy pearls noisy pearl coat.<\/span><\/div>\n
Arrange.<\/span><\/div>\n
Arrange wide opposite.<\/span><\/div>\n
Opposite it.<\/span><\/div>\n
Lily ice-cream.<\/span><\/div>\n
Nevertheless.<\/span><\/div>\n
A hand is Willie.<\/span><\/div>\n
Henry Henry Henry.<\/span><\/div>\n
A hand is Henry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Henry Henry Henry.<\/span><\/div>\n
A hand is Willie.<\/span><\/div>\n
Henry Henry Henry.<\/span><\/div>\n
All the time.<\/span><\/div>\n
A wading chest.<\/span><\/div>\n
Do you mind.<\/span><\/div>\n
Lizzie do you mind.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ethel.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ethel.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ethel.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to barber.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to barber bury.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to barber bury china.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to barber bury china glass.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to barber china and glass.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to barber and china.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to barber and hurry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to hurry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to hurry and glass and china.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to hurry and glass and hurry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to hurry and hurry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to hurry and hurry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Plain cases for see.<\/span><\/div>\n
Tickle tickle tickle you for education.<\/span><\/div>\n
A very reasonable berry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Suppose a selection were reverse.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cousin to sadden.<\/span><\/div>\n
A coral neck and a little song so very extra so very
\nSusie.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cow come out cow come out and out and smell a
\nlittle.<\/span><\/div>\n
Draw prettily.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to a bloom.<\/span><\/div>\n
Neat stretch.<\/span><\/div>\n
Place plenty.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cauliflower.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cauliflower.<\/span><\/div>\n
Curtain cousin.<\/span><\/div>\n
Apron.<\/span><\/div>\n
Neither best set.<\/span><\/div>\n
Do I make faces like that at you.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pinkie.<\/span><\/div>\n
Not writing not writing another.<\/span><\/div>\n
Another one.<\/span><\/div>\n
Think.<\/span><\/div>\n
Jack Rose Jack Rose.<\/span><\/div>\n
Yard.<\/span><\/div>\n
Practically all of them.<\/span><\/div>\n
Does believe it.<\/span><\/div>\n
Measure a measure a measure or.<\/span><\/div>\n
Which is pretty which is pretty which is pretty. <\/span><\/div>\n
To be top.<\/span><\/div>\n
Neglect Waldberg.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sudden say separate.<\/span><\/div>\n
So great so great Emily.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sew grate sew grate Emily.<\/span><\/div>\n
Not a spell nicely.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ring.<\/span><\/div>\n
Weigh pieces of pound.<\/span><\/div>\n
Aged steps.<\/span><\/div>\n
Stops.<\/span><\/div>\n
Not a plan bow.<\/span><\/div>\n
Why is lacings.<\/span><\/div>\n
Little slam up.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cold seam peaches.<\/span><\/div>\n
Begging to state begging to state begging to state
\nalright.<\/span><\/div>\n
Begging to state begging to state begging to state
\nalright.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wheels stows wheels stows.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wickedness.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cotton could mere less.<\/span><\/div>\n
Nevertheless.<\/span><\/div>\n
Anne.<\/span><\/div>\n
Analysis.<\/span><\/div>\n
From the standpoint of all white a week is none too much.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pink coral white coral, coral coral.<\/span><\/div>\n
Happy happy happy.<\/span><\/div>\n
All the, chose.<\/span><\/div>\n
Is a necessity.<\/span><\/div>\n
Necessity.<\/span><\/div>\n
Happy happy happy all the.<\/span><\/div>\n
Happy happy happy all the.<\/span><\/div>\n
Necessity.<\/span><\/div>\n
Remain seated.<\/span><\/div>\n
Come on come on come on on.<\/span><\/div>\n
All the close.<\/span><\/div>\n
Remain seated.<\/span><\/div>\n
Happy.<\/span><\/div>\n
All the.<\/span><\/div>\n
Necessity.<\/span><\/div>\n
Remain seated.<\/span><\/div>\n
All the, close.<\/span><\/div>\n
Websters and mines, websters and mines.<\/span><\/div>\n
Websters and mines.<\/span><\/div>\n
Trimming.<\/span><\/div>\n
Gold space gold space of toes.<\/span><\/div>\n
Twos, twos.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pinned to the letter.<\/span><\/div>\n
In accompany.<\/span><\/div>\n
In a company in.<\/span><\/div>\n
Received.<\/span><\/div>\n
Must.<\/span><\/div>\n
Natural lace.<\/span><\/div>\n
Spend up.<\/span><\/div>\n
Spend up length.<\/span><\/div>\n
Spend up length.<\/span><\/div>\n
Length thoroughly.<\/span><\/div>\n
Neatness.<\/span><\/div>\n
Neatness Neatness.<\/span><\/div>\n
Excellent cording.<\/span><\/div>\n
Excellent cording short close.<\/span><\/div>\n
Close to.<\/span><\/div>\n
When.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pin black.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cough or up.<\/span><\/div>\n
Shouting.<\/span><\/div>\n
Shouting.<\/span><\/div>\n
Neater pin.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pinned to the letter.<\/span><\/div>\n
Was it a space was it a space was it a space to see.<\/span><\/div>\n
Neither things.<\/span><\/div>\n
Persons.<\/span><\/div>\n
Transition.<\/span><\/div>\n
Say say say.<\/span><\/div>\n
North of the calender.<\/span><\/div>\n
Window.<\/span><\/div>\n
Peoples rest.<\/span><\/div>\n
Preserve pulls.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cunning piler.<\/span><\/div>\n
Next to a chance.<\/span><\/div>\n
Apples.<\/span><\/div>\n
Apples.<\/span><\/div>\n
Apples went.<\/span><\/div>\n
It was a chance to preach Saturday.<\/span><\/div>\n
Please come to Susan.<\/span><\/div>\n
Purpose purpose black.<\/span><\/div>\n
Extra plain silver.<\/span><\/div>\n
Furious slippers.<\/span><\/div>\n
Have a reason.<\/span><\/div>\n
Have a reason candy.<\/span><\/div>\n
Points of places.<\/span><\/div>\n
Neat Nezars.<\/span><\/div>\n
Which is a cream, can cream.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ink of paper slightly mine breathes a shoulder able
\nshine.<\/span><\/div>\n
Necessity.<\/span><\/div>\n
Near glass.<\/span><\/div>\n
Put a stove put a stove hoarser.<\/span><\/div>\n
If I was surely if I was surely.<\/span><\/div>\n
See girl says.<\/span><\/div>\n
All the same bright.<\/span><\/div>\n
Brightness.<\/span><\/div>\n
When a churn say suddenly when a churn say suddenly.<\/span><\/div>\n
Poor pour percent.<\/span><\/div>\n
Little branches.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pale.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pale.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pale.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pale.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pale.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pale.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pale.<\/span><\/div>\n
Near sights.<\/span><\/div>\n
Please sorts.<\/span><\/div>\n
Example.<\/span><\/div>\n
Example.<\/span><\/div>\n
Put something down.<\/span><\/div>\n
Put something down some day.<\/span><\/div>\n
Put something down some day in.<\/span><\/div>\n
Put something down some day in my.<\/span><\/div>\n
In my hand.<\/span><\/div>\n
In my hand right.<\/span><\/div>\n
In my hand writing.<\/span><\/div>\n
Put something down some day in my hand writing. <\/span><\/div>\n
Needles less.<\/span><\/div>\n
Never the less.<\/span><\/div>\n
Never the less.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pepperness.<\/span><\/div>\n
Never the less extra stress.<\/span><\/div>\n
Never the less.<\/span><\/div>\n
Tenderness.<\/span><\/div>\n
Old sight.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pearls.<\/span><\/div>\n
Real line.<\/span><\/div>\n
Shoulders.<\/span><\/div>\n
Upper states.<\/span><\/div>\n
Mere colors.<\/span><\/div>\n
Recent resign.<\/span><\/div>\n
Search needles.<\/span><\/div>\n
All a plain all a plain show.<\/span><\/div>\n
White papers.<\/span><\/div>\n
Slippers.<\/span><\/div>\n
Slippers underneath.<\/span><\/div>\n
Little tell.<\/span><\/div>\n
I chance.<\/span><\/div>\n
I chance to.<\/span><\/div>\n
I chance to to.<\/span><\/div>\n
I chance to.<\/span><\/div>\n
What is a winter wedding a winter wedding. <\/span><\/div>\n
Furnish seats.<\/span><\/div>\n
Furnish seats nicely.<\/span><\/div>\n
Please repeat.<\/span><\/div>\n
Please repeat for.<\/span><\/div>\n
Please repeat.<\/span><\/div>\n
This is a name to Anna.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cushions and pears.<\/span><\/div>\n
Reason purses.<\/span><\/div>\n
Reason purses to relay to relay carpets.<\/span><\/div>\n
Marble is thorough fare.<\/span><\/div>\n
Nuts are spittoons.<\/span><\/div>\n
That is a word.<\/span><\/div>\n
That is a word careless.<\/span><\/div>\n
Paper peaches.<\/span><\/div>\n
Paper peaches are tears.<\/span><\/div>\n
Rest in grapes.<\/span><\/div>\n
Thoroughly needed.<\/span><\/div>\n
Thoroughly needed signs.<\/span><\/div>\n
All but.<\/span><\/div>\n
Relieving relieving.<\/span><\/div>\n
Argonauts.<\/span><\/div>\n
That is plenty.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cunning saxon symbol.<\/span><\/div>\n
Symbol of beauty.<\/span><\/div>\n
Thimble of everything.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cunning clover thimble.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cunning of everything.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cunning of thimble.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cunning cunning.<\/span><\/div>\n
Place in pets.<\/span><\/div>\n
Night town.<\/span><\/div>\n
Night town a glass.<\/span><\/div>\n
Color mahogany.<\/span><\/div>\n
Color mahogany center.<\/span><\/div>\n
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.<\/span><\/div>\n
Loveliness extreme.<\/span><\/div>\n
Extra gaiters.<\/span><\/div>\n
Loveliness extreme.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sweetest ice-cream.<\/span><\/div>\n
Page ages page ages page ages.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wiped Wiped wire wire.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sweeter than peaches and pears and cream.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wiped wire wiped wire.<\/span><\/div>\n
Extra extreme.<\/span><\/div>\n
Put measure treasure.<\/span><\/div>\n
Measure treasure.<\/span><\/div>\n
Tables track.<\/span><\/div>\n
Nursed.<\/span><\/div>\n
Dough.<\/span><\/div>\n
That will do.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cup or cup or.<\/span><\/div>\n
Excessively illigitimate.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pussy pussy pussy what what.<\/span><\/div>\n
Current secret sneezers.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ever.<\/span><\/div>\n
Mercy for a dog.<\/span><\/div>\n
Medal make medal.<\/span><\/div>\n
Able able able.<\/span><\/div>\n
A go to green and a letter spoke a go to green or
\npraise or<\/span><\/div>\n
Worships worships worships.<\/span><\/div>\n
Door.<\/span><\/div>\n
Do or.<\/span><\/div>\n
Table linen.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wet spoil.<\/span><\/div>\n
Wet spoil gaiters and knees and little spools little spools or ready silk lining.<\/span><\/div>\n
Suppose misses misses.<\/span><\/div>\n
Curls to butter.<\/span><\/div>\n
Curls.<\/span><\/div>\n
Curls.<\/span><\/div>\n
Settle stretches.<\/span><\/div>\n
See at till.<\/span><\/div>\n
Louise.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sunny.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sail or.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sail or rustle.<\/span><\/div>\n
Mourn in morning.<\/span><\/div>\n
The way to say.<\/span><\/div>\n
Patter.<\/span><\/div>\n
Deal own a.<\/span><\/div>\n
Robber.<\/span><\/div>\n
A high b and a perfect sight.<\/span><\/div>\n
Little things singer.<\/span><\/div>\n
Jane.<\/span><\/div>\n
Aiming.<\/span><\/div>\n
Not in description.<\/span><\/div>\n
Day way.<\/span><\/div>\n
A blow is delighted.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
This is a long abstract poem2<\/sup>, probably most famous for the phrase “A rose is a rose is a rose.”<\/p>\n

Some believe the poem to be a dedication by Gertrude Stein to her life partner, Alice B. Toklas.<\/p>\n

\n

Gertrude Stein<\/strong>3<\/sup> (February 3, 1874 \u2013 July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. With her partner, Alice B. Toklas4<\/sup>, she hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.<\/p>\n

\"Gertrude<\/a>In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas<\/i>, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into the limelight of mainstream attention. Two quotes from her works have become widely known: “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose<\/a>,”<\/sup> and “there is no there there”, with the latter often taken to be a reference to her childhood home of Oakland.<\/p>\n

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References and Interpretations on Stein<\/h3>\n