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...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...
John Geddes
...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...
John Geddes
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
John Geddes
after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art
John Geddes
...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...
John Geddes
...when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...
John Geddes
....my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...
John Geddes
...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...
John Geddes
...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...
John Geddes
...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...
John Geddes
...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...
John Geddes
...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...
John Geddes
I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...
John Geddes
...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...
John Geddes
...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...
John Geddes
...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 ...
John Geddes
... 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...
John Geddes
...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...
John Geddes
I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift
John Geddes
when I see you, I see mystery - a pale moon's beauty behind a veil of cloud
John Geddes
I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows
John Geddes
I am a bed of sparks you breathe upon and kindle
John Geddes
your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky
John Geddes
...when I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine...
John Geddes
...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...
John Geddes
...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...
John Geddes
...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues...
John Geddes
...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...
John Geddes
...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...
John Geddes
...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...
John Geddes
...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
John Geddes
...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
John Geddes
...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...
John Geddes
...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...
John Geddes
...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...
John Geddes
...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...
John Geddes
...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...
John Geddes
...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?...
John Geddes
... 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...
John Geddes
...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...
John Geddes
...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...
John Geddes
...Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin...
John Geddes
...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...
John Geddes