Ive been on Prozac for 12 years and Im off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I havent felt like this in 12 years Im like a giddy little kid. – Jonathan Davis
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesnt suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. – James Laughlin