Rationalists, wearing square hats,
Think, in square rooms,
Looking at the floor,
Looking at the ceiling.
They confine themselves
To right-angled triangles.
If they tried rhomboids,
Cones, waving lines, ellipses--
As, for example, the ellipse of the half-moon--
Rationalists would wear sombreros.
~Wallace Stevens, from "Six Significant Landscapes"
Thursday, March 17, 2005
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wallace stevens wrote it, yes ... but could cat stevens sing it?
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