4 Quotes by Fred Chappell

Each time I reach outside my skin/I just get lonesome for what's within.

Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.

In an almost totally insentient cosmos only human feeling is interesting or relevant to what the soul searches for... suffering is the most expensive of human emotions, but it is the most intense and precious of them, because suffering most efficiently humanizes the unfeeling universe.

Every hour is another syllable in your epitaph.