数学家与诗人都是作为先知先觉的预言家存在我们的世界上。只不过诗人由于天性孤傲被认为狂妄自大,而数学家由于超凡脱俗为人们敬而远之。故而在文学艺术团体里诗人往往受制于小说家,正如在科学技术协会里物理学家领导数学家一样。但这只是表面现象。“我做不了诗人”。晚年的威廉·福克纳彬彬有礼地承认,“或许每一位长篇小说家最初都想写诗,发觉自己 Both mathematicians and poets exist in our world as prophetic forecasters. But the poet is considered arrogant because of his nature and arrogance, and mathematicians are at arm’s length because of their transcendence. Therefore, in the literary and art groups, poets tend to be dominated by novelists, just as physicists lead mathematicians in the Association of Science and Technology. But this is only superficial. ”I can not do the poet “. In his later years, William Faulkner admitted politely that ”perhaps every novelist first wanted to write poetry and find herself