“I am in debt to Helen Hoyt for everything that I have achieved up to the present date.”

An unusually direct acknowledgement of formative encouragement · Letter to the editor, Poetry, April 1925

• Friendship
• Memory

“Memory is a revengeful wench. Under the pretext of constancy she selects things and sentences in your past life that you would like to forget.”

Capturing memory as faithful yet merciless · Article, A Sad, Unpatriotic Soul Remembers

• Memory
• Time

“The Village used to have the spirit of Bohemia, gaiety, sadness, beauty, poetry. Now it's just a geographical location.”

Mourning the loss of a living artistic community · Quoted remark on Greenwich Village

• Beauty
• Memory
• Poetry