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Quote by Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and

Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
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Intolerance respecting other peoples religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peoples art. – Wallace Stevens

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If theres no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. – Robert Graves

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Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. – Vicente Aleixandre

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