Most people read poetry listening for echoes

“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

Author: Wallace Stevens
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Wallace Stevens

 

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