From Charles Ives: "Postface to 114 Songs"

(The text within quotation marks is taken from James Montgomery Bailey, owner of and longtime contributor to the newspaper in Danbury, Conn., the town of Ives' birth. The text outside of quotation marks is Ives' own wording.)

"Some have written a book for money; I have not. Some for fame; I have not. Some for love; I have not. Some for kindlings; I have not. I have not written a book for any of these reasons or for all of them together. In fact, gentle borrower, I have not written a book at all" -- I have merely cleaned a house. All that is left is out on the clothes line; but it's good for a man's vanity to have the neighbors see him -- on the clothes line.