Very valuable comment, @nancybriti. Rimbaud spoke of the "alchemy of the verb," and in that phrase I think his conception of poetry and the poet's work is summed up. We know that poetry is the art of the word, of the verb, but Rimbaud also saw it as a process of transfiguration or transmutation, as the alchemists wanted: to transform common minerals into gold; the great Work, as they called it, which was a metaphor for the transformation of man. Always grateful.