 Other outsiders , however — the constant and more single @-@ minded ( the " best and worst " ) — do not share his appreciation for the landscape . Rather , they " never stayed here long but sought / Immoderate soils where the beauty was not so external " . The " granite wastes " attracted the ascetic " saints @-@ to @-@ be " , the " clays and gravels " tempted the would @-@ be tyrants ( who " left , slamming the door " , an allusion to Goebbels ' taunt that if the Nazis failed , they would " slam the door " with a bang that would shake the universe ) , and an " older colder voice , the oceanic whisper " beckoned the " really reckless " romantic solitaries who renounce or deny life : 
