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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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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. – Wallace Stevens

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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I dont look on poetry as closed works. I feel theyre going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. – John Ashbery

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If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, youll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. – Jim Jarmusch

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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. – Vincent Van Gogh

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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