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"No one – including no researcher – operates without an implicit historical framework. It’s only a question of how explicitly that notion of what’s come before – and the implications for the future – is engaged, or how blithely it’s ignored."

"Romanticism produces no architecture, not even revivals, but it does use the ruins of other styles to dream in." --Donald Sutherland, 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛: 𝑎 𝐵𝑖𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘 (1951)

Moyers & Merwin.

"The Sublime

To stand upon a windy pinnacle,
Beneath the infinite blue of the blue noon,
And underfoot a valley terrible
As that dim gulf, where sense and being swoon
When the soul parts; a giant valley strewn
With giant rocks; asleep, and vast, and still,
And far away. The torrent, which has hewn
His pathway through the entrails of the hill,
Now crawls along the bottom and anon
Lifts up his voice, a muffled tremulous roar,
Borne on the wind an instant, and then gone
Back to the caverns of the middle air;
A voice as of a nation overthrown
With beat of drums, when hosts have marched to war."

--W S Blunt

Minack Theatre.