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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast. – Robert Morgan

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I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. – Robert Morgan

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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. – Robert Morgan

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