The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.

G.k. Chesterton
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In this quotation, poet John Keats tries to explain that poetry, as opposed to mathematics, is a more mystical pursuit. Poetry is an art that is more about being in the moment and feeling a connection, rather than a detached mathematical analysis. Poetry makes you feel things and mathematicians try to logically explain certain things. Poetry is not based on logic or reason, but on emotion and imagination.

Poetry can be used to describe something as abstract as infinity or as specific as the color of a flower. In math, you need to be able to replace symbols with numbers in order to create mathematical models. In poetry, however, the symbols aren’t replaced by numbers.

They are feelings or thoughts that you’re trying to capture in your mind in turn creating a picture that moves you emotionally.

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