Holmes' words

"I was born with the devil in me," he In one part of his confession. "I not help the fact that I was a more than the poet can help the to song, nor the ambition of an intellectual man to be great. Where other hearts touched with pity mine filled with cruelty, and where in the others the feeling to save life, 1 reveled in the thought destroying the same. Not only was I not satisfied in taking i t ; r sought devices, strange, fantastical apd even grotesque.