Sure enough I have a fatal talent of converting all Nature into Preternaturalism for myself: a truly horrible Phantasm-Reality it is to me; what of heavenly radiances it has, blended in close neighborhood, in intimate union, with the hideousness of Death and Chaos;-a very ghastly business indeed!
"The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II."
Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson