"A wild passage from Melville's "Enchanted Isle" evoked "the wonder and beauty of devastation" and inspired the violent and predatory Sea Quarry."

[Belle Krasne, "A Theodore Roszak Profile", Art Digest, 1952.]

"Cape Ann, New England is where we spend most of our summers, and these shapes are commonplace during the sumer. I don't know if you are acquainted with that country, but this is the flora of sea life and the various crustaceans that abound in that area. By the way, the dry salvages are in that area, T.S. Eliot's,and that whole body of rock, because it is practically a piece of rock, reminds one very much of that same essential survival quality, excepting on another level, but there is nothing there, it is just rock, it is not very interesting, but when you look at it and think about it, it becomes quite beautiful. It is amazing how much real beauty one can find in a completely desolate and devastated area."

[Theodore Roszak Interview with Elliott, 1956, p.19]