"Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings." (G W Friedrich Hegel, "Introduction to Aesthetics", 1842)
"True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result." (Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1852)
"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions." (Ezra Pound, "The Spirit of Romance", 1910)
"There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel." (Wallace Stevens, "The Necessary Angel", 1951)
"Reasoning is constructed with movable images just as certainly as poetry is." (Jacob Bronowski, "Visionary Eye", 1978)
"Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words." (Tahar Ben Jelloun)
"Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets." (Carl Sandburg)
"Poetry is as exact a science as geometry." (Gustave Flaubert)
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