[tveita]

If it was said about e.g. accounting it could come off as snobbery. Everyone knows that being a poet requires imagination, so no one is going to see it as anything other than a light-hearted joke.

[mejutoco]

On the other side, if it was said about lawyers nobody would ever complain :)

[hgsgm]

The point of the quote is that mathematics requires more imagination.