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 things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
— Raymond Carver
(May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988)
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He is considered to be amongst America's greatest writers. Wikipedia
