2 Quotes by Amelia Urry

Words are important, but not just as signifiers of ideas; they have their own rhythm, their own layering; pages sprinkled with hundreds of tiny mirrors, reflecting one another and bits of the world.

I found I missed the compelling riddle-like quality of especially tricky math problems, that tight flourish of logic unfolding step by step. This is probably the same quality that also attracts me to particularly tricky poems. In both cases, a sense of wonder animates the premise: how can these constructed symbols mean something true about the world?