“Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.” MenMadeSoulIndividualPerfectStageExerciseSolitudeIdealsSettingSettingsBoredWildernessWorking ItMelancholyCultDisgusted Book:Wilderness and the American Mind Source: Wilderness and the American Mind
“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.” WaySoulEyeEarthJoyPoetryTearsEvidenceWitnessParadiseMelancholyNervesExcessImperfectDispositionDelayGlimpseExquisiteTombsSplendorImperfect Things Author:Charles Baudelaire