All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

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.