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Quote by Wallace Stevens
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations,

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens

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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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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry says the things that I cant say. I read a lot, but I never write it. – Trevor McDonald

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Poetry and prayer are very similar. – Carol Ann Duffy

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