The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.