Scott Buchanan Quote

Mathematics and poetry move together between two extremes of mysticism, the mysticism of the commonplace where ideas illuminate and create facts, and the mysticism of the extraordinary where God, the Infinite, the Real, poses the riddles of desire and disappointment, sin and salvation, effort and failure, question and paradoxical answer.

Poetry and Mathematics, Chapter 1 (p. 42), The University of Chicago Press. 1975