"True villains are extremely photogenic."
"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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Source: Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.575, Univ of California Press
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