John Geddes Quotes - Page 3

...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...
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...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...
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...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..
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...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...
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...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...
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...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...
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...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...
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...when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real...
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...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...
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...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...
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you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer
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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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...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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...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...
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...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...
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...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...
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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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...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...
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...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...
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...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...
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A heart never breaks in the same pattern of pieces
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...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...
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...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?
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...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...
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...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...
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...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...
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...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...
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...your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over...
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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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...true love is my religion...
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...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
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...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...
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...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...
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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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...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...
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...a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...
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...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...
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...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
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...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...
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...I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...
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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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...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...
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...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...
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...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...
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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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...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...
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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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...I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ...
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...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...
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...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits
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...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...
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...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...
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...a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground...
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Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...
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put out the candles with your fire—I’m on fire
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...Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin...
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...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..
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...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...
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...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...
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... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...
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