Character Quote by George Oppen

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign…

— Carl Sandburg

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving…

— Dan Simmons

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

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

— Edward Hirsch

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

— George Oppen

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how…

— Anonymous

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

— William C. Bryant