Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stuttering bravado, The gradual dulling of those Negro eyes, ...>The sudden, overwhelming little-boyness in that barn?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print ... substitute d...runken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd- eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blundering... clod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »