You should check out this (very short) poem by Maurice Machover:
Ode to the Continuum Hypothesis

"The following episode should be of special interest. Dedekind said, with respect to the concept of set, that he imagined a set as  a closed sack that contains completely determinate things---but things which one does not see, and of which one knows nothing except that they exist and are determinate. Somewhat later, Cantor gave his own conception ( Read more... )