In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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