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Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it… — Salomon Bochner
What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops and space loses… — IU?. I. Manin
If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound. You will know… — Mooji
I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause… — Leonard Bernstein
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe.… — John Green
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet… — Henry David Thoreau
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. — Anthony Hope
To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in… — Fredrick Hatfield
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form… — Judith Wright
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American… — Sherman Alexie
Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity. — William Wordsworth
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. — Zona Gale
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making… — Fernand Leger
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
No time for poetry but exactly what is. — Jack Kerouac
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole… — Robert Frost
Poetry gave me back my voice. — Maya Angelou
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the… — Ernest Hemingway
Was it for this the clay grew tall? — Wilfred Owen
The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry. — Sean O Faolain
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. — Llewelyn Powys
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. — Ansel Adams

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