From "How to Read a Poem" by Terry Eagleton

This book is a wonderful piece of literature and I think that anyone interested in Creative Writing in general should read it.
Anyways, the author uses wonderful analogies and metaphors to make his points. One of the examples he used in the chapter I was reading today about Formalists just made me completely happy and thoughtful and just amazing.

He said:
"The general idea, anyway, is clear: poetry is a kind of creative abnormality, an exhilarating illness of language - rather as, when we are actually ill and so cease to take our bodies for granted, we have an unwelcome opportunity to experience them afresh."

First of all, what a beautifully hopeful way of perceiving illness.
Second of all, this author is brilliant and is able to explain poetry in ways I never would have thought of on my own. He gives me a newly found appreciation for poetry as not only an art form but also a way of communication.