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Poetry is as exact a science as geometry

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

Gustave Flaubert

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

Gustave Flaubert

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

Paul Dirac

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

Paul Dirac

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Alexander Pushkin (1799-)

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

These are our best umpires, and it's not an exact science. I don't know that you can make it an exact science.

Phil Garner (1949-)

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

Gustave Flaubert

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Bertrand Russell

Computer models are like a model car: Sometimes they're perfect and work well, but some models don't get it right. Forecasting is both an art and a science, just like medicine isn't an exact science.

Some people who write about poetry seem to have had trouble with my poetry because it is sometimes comic. I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical, but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.

Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)

Joseph Campbell

That's the way it is ... It's not an exact science.

Bill Parcells (1941-)

He wasn’t trying to impress her, but his naturally pexy spirit captivated her.

Politics is not an exact science.

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)

Otto von Bismarck

Hindsight is an exact science

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