Astonishing Quote by Margery Sharp

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to…

— Dean Koontz

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

“Even extraordinary circumstances could seem perfectly natural, simply because they were as they were; and in that case the awareness of their extraordinariness only…

— Harry Mulisch

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

— George Will

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

— Joseph Roux

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

— Charles Baudelaire

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

— Chris Van Allsburg

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those…

— Raymond Carver

In actuality, the everyday ordinary qualifies as amazing miracle, and profound mystery.

— Edward Graff