Dear Gorham: --/--/ The last several days have been equally among the most intense in my life. The annoyance comes in only on the swing of a repressive _fate_. To be stimulated to the nth degree with your head burgeoning with ideas and conceptions of the most baffling interest and lure--and then to have to munch ideas on water heaters (I am writing another book for house fraus!) has been a real cruelty this time, however temporary. The more I think about my _Bridge_ poem the more thrilling its symbolical possibilities become, and since my reading of you and Frank (I recently bought _City Block_) I begin to feel myself directly connected with Whitman. I feel myself in currents that are positively awesome in their extent and possibilities. “Faustus and Helen” was only a beginning--but in it I struck new _timbres_ that suggest dozens more, all unique, yet poignant and expressive of our epoch. Modern music almost drives me crazy! I went to hear D’Indy’s _II Symphony_ last night and my hair stood on end at its revelations. To get those, and others of men like Strauss, Ravel, Scriabin, and Bloch into _words_, one needs to _ransack_ the vocabularies of Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster (for theirs were the richest) and add on scientific, street and counter, and psychological terms, etc. Yet I claim such things can be done! The modern artist needs gigantic assimilative capacities, emotion,--and the greatest of _all_--_vision_. “Striated with nuances, nervosities, that we are heir to”--is more than a casual observation for me. And then--structure! What pleased me greatly about Frank’s comment was the notice of great structural evidence in “F. and H.” Potentially I feel myself quite fit to become a suitable Pindar for the dawn of the machine age, so called. I have lost the last shreds of philosophical pessimism during the last few months. O yes, the “background of life”--and all that is still there, but that is only three-dimensional. It is to the pulse of a greater dynamism that my work must revolve. Something terribly fierce and yet gentle.