In the Beginning was the Word: Demystifying Poets and Poetry (Inspiration) (Essay‪)‬

We are all poets, and every poem is an interpretation. The poet is no more mysterious than is the scientist. One is in love with words, the other with numbers. For either, it's the beauty of the formulation that counts, not its acceptance. For Einstein, E=m[c.sup.2] was pure poetry. That it could change the world was in distant second place to the breakthrough in understanding it encapsulated. For Robert Frost, the imagery of two roads diverging in a wood was an equally elegant formula for describing life. The thought that schoolchildren might be repeating the lines somewhere ages and ages hence probably never crossed his mind.