There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Sir Francis Bacon
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. - Charles Baudelaire
I am very pleased you like my stories. They are studies in prose, put for Romance's sake into fanciful form: meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find simplicity in a subtle strangeness. - Oscar Wilde
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. - Anthony Doerr
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality. - Jean Lorrain
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. - Robert Kelly
There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles. - Thomas Lux
To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time. - T.L. Rese
There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. - Edgar Allan Poe
It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth. - Kathleen Basford
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. - David D. Allee