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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

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: October 2, 1879
Died: August 2, 1955

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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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