#strangeness

[witnbeauty]

[nobeerreviews]

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

-- Jane Jacobs

(Bucharest, Romania)

[thirdity]

The poet Peter Streckfus once remarked that what he loved most in a book of poems was a quality of persistent strangeness — “swimming in the confusion of it” was his phrase for the reader’s initial experience. This quality makes, as Streckfus suggests, an environment; it is not a matter of the shrewdly confused surface or of opacity, nor can it be elaborated into a deliberate aesthetic. Rather, one feels that something has been discovered in the language itself, some property or capacity, some tone never before transcribed, whose implicit meanings the poet has found ways to reveal.

Louise Glück, American Originality

[palepinkfairy]

[gennsoup]

There was a bit of beauty in the strangeness, though, just like there's always a kind of beauty about a wild animal.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things

[mournfulroses]

John Keats, from Selected Poems & Letters of John Keats; "Endymion,"

[mythologyofblue]

I was terrified of people and of my own strangeness.

-Niall Williams, This is Happiness