Italy, as the site of his romance, was chiefly valuable to him [Hawthorne] as according a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon, as they are, and must needs be, in America...Romance and poetry, like ivy, lichens and wall-flowers, need Ruin to make them grow.
The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorn (published in 1860, based on notes made in 1857-59), Preface
Monday 28 January 2008
...and Ruin to make them grow
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