Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

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    here at midnight, in our little town
    A mourning figure walks, and will not rest,
    Near the old court-house pacing up and down,
    Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    Whatever qualities [Tsar Nicholas I] may have shown in his own kingly profession, it must be admitted that in his dealings with the Russian Muse he was at the worst a vicious bully, at the best a clown.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    He snapped at a mosquito.
    He snapped at a flea.
    He snapped at a minnow.
    And he snapped at me.
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)