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" Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. "
Wallace Stevens
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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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