A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers (Boston, 1893), p. 477.
[1124]. We do not listen with the best regard to the verses of a man who is only a poet, nor to his problems if he is only an algebraist; but 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.—Emerson, R. W.
Society and Solitude, Chap. 7, Works and Days.
[1125]. Mathesis and Poetry are ... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, and in the other, to the heart.—Hill, Thomas.
North American Review, Vol. 85, p. 230.
[1126]. The Mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination. Poesy is a creation, a making, a fiction; and the Mathematics have been called, by an admirer of them, the sublimest and most stupendous of fictions. It is true, they are not only μάθησις, learning, but ποίησις, a creation.—Hill, Thomas.
North American Review, Vol. 85, p. 229.
Music and poesy used to quicken you: