Best quotes by Wallace Stevens on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Wallace Stevens on Poetry

• ‟ Money is a kind of poetry.

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• ‟ A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

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• ‟ Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

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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.

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• ‟ In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

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• ‟ 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.

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