"Whether something is a classic gets judged over an awfully long time, by readers who return to the work again and again and repeatedly discover in that work something compelling or powerful," he said.
Motion added: "I do believe that, if there are weapons of mass destruction discovered in Iraq, something needs to be done.
Yet these flawed men confronted daunting moral decisions — whether to seek vengeance or to rescue others, how to recreate a sense of community among those who had lost everything, how to keep faith alive when all evidence was that God had turned away — and gradually, reluctantly even, they rose to the task, discovering in themselves something extraordinary.
When John Cyr set out to photograph the tools of the darkroom he discovered in himself something unexpected - a passion to capture the chemical fingerprints of some of the world's greatest photographers.
(The electron itself, discovered in 1897, was something Mendeleev remained suspicious of until his death in 1907). Mendeleev, by contrast, organized the elements by increasing atomic weight.
Whatever the exhibition's quality as a whole, few visitors won't discover something in it to marvel over.
We may even discover something in 'The Sound of Music.' That would be the Holy Grail for me, to find a nude scene in a G-rated movie".
These stories could be so beneficial to students, while at the same time potentially opening them up to a broader reading base and helping them discover something in themselves that they didn't know about before.
The goth kid from your sixth form cannot toke on a sweet drugs joint because he is constantly, constantly paranoid that the RAF will come to school one day and do routine piss tests, and discover something in his piss.
That he has adapted the movement he discovered in Jewish dances explains something of the hard-to-define aspect of the way he uses the body.
