John Geddes Quotes

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...
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...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...
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...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
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after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art
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...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...
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...when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...
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....my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...
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...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...
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...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...
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...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...
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...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...
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...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...
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I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...
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...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...
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...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...
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...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...
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... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began...
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...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...
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I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift
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when I see you, I see mystery - a pale moon's beauty behind a veil of cloud
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I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows
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I am a bed of sparks you breathe upon and kindle
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your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky
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...when I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine...
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...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...
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...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...
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...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues...
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...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...
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...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...
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...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...
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...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
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...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
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...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...
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...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...
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...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...
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...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...
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...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...
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...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...
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... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out...
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...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...
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...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...
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...Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin...
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...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...
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...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...
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you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips
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...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...
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...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...
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...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...
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...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...
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...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...
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...my dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight - we go camping at night - it's my lucid dream of being with you...
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... only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...
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...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...
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...yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...
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...don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...
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...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...
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...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...
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...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...
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I will not exorcise you—I’d miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair
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... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood...
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