Strangeness

Famous quotes containing the word strangeness:

“But here’s a haughtier text,
The labyrinth of her days
That her own strangeness perplexed....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

““There is no exquisite beauty,” says Bacon, Lord Verulam, speaking truly of all the forms and genera of beauty, “without some strangeness in the proportion.””
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“They had never had one in the house before.
The strangeness of it all. Like unleashing
A lion, really. Poised
To pounce. A puma. A panther. A black
Bear.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)