Algebra Quote by Brian Patten

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] ”

— David Hilbert

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

— David Eugene Smith

“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries…

— G.K. Chesterton

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human…

— Ezra Pound

“Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.”

— C. J. Redwine

“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.”

— Karl Weierstrass

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

— G. H. Hardy

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And…

— Anonymous

“It was like trying to solve a math equation with a poem.”

— Mara Purnhagen

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

— Ice T

“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.”

— Patricia Geary

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

— Karl Weierstrass