In a remarkable speech to Le bret, he says he does not want a patron because he does not want to write “fulsome dedications to money-men, as other poets do” (75), or “crawl on my belly” (75) or have his whole reputation based on one poem, or “idolize idiots, live in fear of the press” (76), or “living in fear and trembling, visiting ‘useful’ people instead of writing” (76).
