You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
Either move or be moved.
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.