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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.