The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.