My verse on scholars and poets:

पाण्डित्यं च कवित्वं च नैव तुल्यं कदाचन । 

युध्यन्ते पण्डिता: शब्दै: क्रीडन्ति कवयो मुदा ।।

Scholarship and poetry are never alike.  Scholars conduct warfare with words, while poets play with words happily.

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus

Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan

[Residence: Campbell, California]