Deception Quote by C. J. Redwine

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

— Patricia Geary

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

— Mara Purnhagen

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”

— Cath Crowley

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication…

— Mark Twain

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart’s content with nothing…

— Neal Stephenson