Daniel Tovey added a quote:
"Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people." — Adrian Mitchell

Daniel Tovey added a quote:
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence." — Edith Sitwell

Daniel Tovey added a quote:
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication." — Friedrich Nietzsche

Daniel Tovey read and liked Ashley's review of Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977:

"Ever felt like there was no one for you, nothing and no one who could hold your existence? As if you were drifting through life-going from person to person, place to place, job to job? Read this-it might wake you up. And make you feel a lot less lone...more Ever felt like there was no one for you, nothing and no one who could hold your existence? As if you were drifting through life-going from person to person, place to place, job to job? Read this-it might wake you up. And make you feel a lot less lonely. Devastatingly, shatteringly beautiful. (less) "

Daniel Tovey liked a trivia question:
Pretty much every character in the Marquis de Sade's novel Juliette eats so much of this substance that they should all be dead. see if you know the answer »