Metrical Quotes
- If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
- Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly… — John Crowe Ransom
- Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley
- Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured… — Arthur Eddington
- Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as… — James Fenton
- All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah