Strangeness and Charm

Famous quotes containing the words strangeness and, strangeness and/or charm:

    I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate? And why never study animals in health and natural surroundings? why always sickened and in an environment of strangeness and artificiality?
    Sarah N. Cleghorn (1976–1959)

    “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)

    All the charm of all the Muses
    often flowering in a lonely word;
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)