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There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.