Fred Chappell Quotes

#1. Wine still tastes for me of the mountaintop of piny woods with a warm spring dawn coming on, and that Spanishy word, Sonoma, is an exotic flavor all to itself.

Fred Chappell

#2. There were too many things suddenly that I didn't understand, and I didn't know what to do about it. I knew that I needed to be older, but that's not enough. You have to have some basic information that was not yet available to me.

Fred Chappell

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

Fred Chappell

#4. Our thoughts were so awesome to us, that no one could speak a word, not even 'Goodbye.' We hugged and clasped and wept silently.

Fred Chappell

#5. 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.

Fred Chappell

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

Fred Chappell

#7. Poetry is a mode of consciousness.

Fred Chappell

#8. No, I thank you; I have had an elegant sufficiency of the numerous delicacies. Any more would be an unsophisticated superfluity, for gastronomic satiety admonishes me that I have reached the ultimate stage of deglutition consistent with dietetic integrity.

Fred Chappell

#9. In the midst of life, we are in death.

Fred Chappell