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

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. – Jack Prelutsky

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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. – George Oppen

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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

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Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. – Author Unknown

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. – Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals

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