Karl Weierstrass Quotes
“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
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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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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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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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He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.
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An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.
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The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.
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When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.
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I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.
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“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
