Alchemy Quotes

Well, that`s his journey. I know that I might have only got Shakespeare in Love because someone else turned it down; it`s a very small marketplace. So it would feel weird to say, `Oh, yeah I could have been there on Oscar night`, because the whole chemistry of the film is built around that particular actor. Who knows if it would have had the same effect with a different cast. It`s a mercurial world of alchemy. (on turning down Adrian Brody`s role in The Pianist which garnered the actor an Oscar)

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.

PASSION FRUIT: ALCHEMY OF THE EGG,

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

And since the fit manner of preparation is not to be found in pharmaceuticals, we must explore further; that is to say, we must learn from alchemy.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.