“I look and I look... I must have come to the wrong planet. It's so strange here.” — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future. — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions..." Ligeia” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever… — Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
“The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity” — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“There was a pause, while I fought against this other, lesser kind of death that was creeping over me - this death… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
People have to follow their own strangeness. The minute they start making their own vision of the world flattened out so everyone… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Well, strangeness was hard to think about. Wonder grazes you like a bullet; it zips by and is gone, and all you… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“My people -- for so I think of them, although we are not united by country or creed, we are joined by… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“অদ্ভুত আঁধার এক এসেছে এ-পৃথিবীতে আজ, যারা অন্ধ সবচেয়ে বেশি আজ চোখে দেখে তারা; যাদের হৃদয়ে কোনো প্রেম নেই—প্রীতি নেই—করুণার আলোড়ন নেই… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I was oppressed by the sense of universal strangeness, by the chill of approaching catastrophe, the menace of ruins suspended above; and… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most… — john gardner Copy Share Image
“But why would they do that? What is to be asked? He was a man who sees into things -- very ordinary… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Using someone else's kitchen feels a little like reading their diary. I'm so anxious.” — Yuhta Nishio Copy Share Image
“before I die I want to see The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes” — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
