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.
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This quote is just one of 11 total Wallace Stevens quotes in our collection. Wallace Stevens is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
This quote is just one of 11 total Wallace Stevens quotes in our collection. Wallace Stevens is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.