Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

According to Schwartz's biographer James Atlas "Delmore continued to hope that he would eventually receive his legacy [even] as late as 1946. "
Schwartz spent time at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin before finally graduating from New York University in 1935. This story and other short stories and poems became his first book also entitled In Dreams Begin Responsibilities publiDelmore Schwartzd in 1938 when Schwartz was only 25 years old.

Delmore Schwartz (December 8 1913 – July 11 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.