The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. - G. K. Chesterton

To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

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.