A Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

There is no beauty without some strangeness — © Edgar Allan Poe
There is no beauty without some strangeness
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.
Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.
Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a beauty that all men love, a virtue that wins all men's souls. That beauty is chastity. Chastity without skin beauty may enkindle the soul; skin beauty without chastity can kindle only the eye. Chastity enshrined in the mold of true womanhood will hold true love eternally.
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