Strange

Famous quotes containing the word strange:

“Carved with figures strange and sweet,
All made out of the carver’s brain,”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earned in the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Alone he rides, alone,
The fair and fatal king:
Dark night is all his own,
That strange and solemn thing.”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)