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DRAMATISTS > poet, author > Wallace Stevens
Most people read...
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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.
Source: Quoted in Beverly Coyle and Alan Filreis eds Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens and Jos? Rodr?guez Feo, Duke University 86
-- Wallace Stevens, (Oct 2 1879-1955), US poet, author; He was noted for subtle verse of reality and imagination; won 1955 Pulitzer for Collected Poems.