"Literature is the only place where truth can hide in plain sight."
"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness."
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
The truth is, I don't know what I'm doing half the time, but I do it with confidence.
The beauty of a mathematical idea is that it can be shared and understood across cultures and time.
