Hope Stadler

“I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Cesar A. Cruz

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”
― Walt Whitman

“..I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
― Sylvia Plath