A  man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

—John Dryden

TOPICS: poetry, psychology, art, science

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

—Albert Einstein

TOPICS: pure math, logic, poetry

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

TOPICS: poetry, arithmetic, geometry

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

—Sofia Kovalevskaïa

TOPICS: mathematicians, poetry

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

—Karl Weierstrass

TOPICS: mathematicians, poetry