Karl Weierstrass Quotes
“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
Quotes to Explore
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.
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Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]
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It makes you wonder how this was discovered, because these are some pretty big numbers here. You can't have complete confidence in these numbers yet. I don't think management completely has the situation in their grasp.
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I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
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Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?
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It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
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I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.
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Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.
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“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
