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Wallace Stevens

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

Poetry

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Wallace Stevens is saying that complexity is an essential part of life and poetry, making them interesting and engaging rather than dull. Without challenges and layers of meaning, both life and poetry would lack depth and fail to capture our attention.

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