by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Rationalists, wearing square hats
Language: English
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.
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Confirmed with Others: a magazine of the new verse, V. II, No. 3, Mar 1916.
Text Authorship:
- by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), no title, appears in Six significant landscapes, no. 6, first published 1916 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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