Heaven is not built of country seats / But little queer suburban streets;, .d. cities;, .d. heaven;, Heaven is not built of country seats But little queer suburban streets.
I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.
My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
