• My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.

    Dorothy Parker: My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.
    Dorothy Parker (1996). “The Uncollected Dorothy Parker”, Bloomsbury Academic