"Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry." (Aleksandr Pushkin)
"Mathematics is very much like poetry […] what makes a good poem, a great poem; is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words.” (Lipman Bers)
"While most of us were just trying to learn to arrange logical statements into coherent arguments, Ted was quietly solving open problems and creating new mathematics. It was as if he could write poetry while the rest of us were trying to learn grammar." (Joel Shapiro)
“The poetry of science is in some sense embodied in its great equations.” (Graham Farmelo)
“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.” (Friedrich von Schlegel)
“Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.” (Vladimir Arnold)
“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” (Maria Mitchell)
“Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.” (Amit Ray)
“Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.” (Carl Sandburg)
“The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.” (John McLaughlin)
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