Breaking: I am being told I’m dramatic, vain, and impossible to deal with, which is wild coming from the entire British poetry industry. by Lord Byron

I prefer 'well-dressed inconvenience.' It has more literary merit.

You say that like you weren’t personally holding court like a ruined duke with better cheekbones than everyone else.

This is exactly why I stopped reading your letters, they arrive like gossip and leave like a duel.

Insufferable is just charisma that refused to apologize.

And yet you still quote me, which is basically applause with a straight face.

Please, you wrote half your reputation yourself and the other half after midnight.

That’s your final answer? Fine. Posterity can keep the attitude, I’m taking the line: charisma that refused to apologize.

He’s not wrong, but he is insufferable about it, which somehow makes it worse.