Chase Stewart

“To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)

Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.”
― The Poet Archibald MacLeish

“Love is a source of anxiety until it is source of boredom; only friendship feeds the spirit. Love raises great expectations in us that it never satisfies; the hopes based on friendship are milder and in the present, and they exist only because they've already been rewarded. Love is a script about just a few repeated themes we have a hard time following, though we make every effort to conform to its tone. Friendship is a permis de séjour that enables us to go anywhere and do anything exactly as our whims dictate.”
― Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s

“I think it's the future. At least, it's the future
we called "tomorrow." Here it is,
"today": one hundred cups of effort,
good intentions, small misunderstandings,
stretching away from the bed
and finally leading back to it.”
― Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007

“Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.”
― R.K. Cowles