“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
“The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions..." Ligeia”
“In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.”
“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”