Chairs Quote by Raymond Carver

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

— Raymond Carver

“In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences…

— Peter Sloterdijk

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.

— Margery Sharp

“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do, as having…

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit…

— Mary Karr

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of…

— Richard Wilbur

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

“There it was again, another strange usage. 'We had words.' Everyone has words...What a useless euphemism. The phrases that people used to make things…

— Laura Lippman

“The word ubiquitous is itself ubiquitous in today’s writing.”

— Jarod Kintz

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

— Charles Bukowski