John Geddes Quotes

...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...
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...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...
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...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...
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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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...sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ...
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December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...
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...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....
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...everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...
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...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...
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...the best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...
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...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird...
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...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...
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...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...
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...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...
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...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...
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...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..
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...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...
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...if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ...
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...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...
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...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful...
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I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles—your Magus of words
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...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..
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...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...
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In the baby’s roomThe city lights areMilkyIn the curtains… Breath Gentle as rain, Sleep Quiet as snowflakes
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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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...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...
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we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves
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...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...
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You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages
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...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...
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Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon
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...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...
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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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...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...
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...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
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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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...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
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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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I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn’t work
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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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...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...
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...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...
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I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...
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...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...
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...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon...
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our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us
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after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art
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...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...
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...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...
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the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...
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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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...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...
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...the bones of cirrus clouds stand out like ribs against the sky - an angel is stretching...
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...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...
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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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...spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...
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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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...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...
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...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...
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...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...
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