Mathematics Quote by G.K. Chesterton

A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the words or…

— Cynthia Rylant

“The poet can’t stand the quiet. She can’t stand the buzzing in her head. The murmur of memory. The poet picks up a book…

— Trista Mateer

In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Karl Weierstrass

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Well, of course one must have concentration. Courage. Self-control. That goes without saying. But more important than these, one must have... I don't know…

— Trevanian

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides…

— Vincent Buranelli

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

— William James

“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign…

— Blaise Pascal

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer