Calculation Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the…

— Robert Hass

If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?

— Harvey Jackins

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

— John Steinbeck

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which…

— Thom Gunn

“Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm incomplete.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

— William C. Bryant

There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.

— Mary Szybist

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what…

— Peter Davison

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg