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Quote by Wallace Stevens
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes ar

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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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. – Wallace Stevens

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Among twenty snowy mountains,
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Was the eye of the blackbird. – Wallace Stevens

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. – George Will

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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for. – Jean Cocteau

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