Oddness Quotes

The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit. (Iamblichus)
The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. View quote
Amy Lowell
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. View quote
Alan Alda
No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more balanced and Miltonic style. But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music, and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive, and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created. View quote
Christopher Fry
Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield. View quote
Sarra Manning