John Geddes Quotes

Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ... ~ John Geddes

I wish I could tell the tale of your beauty as my rough hands caress your face ... ~ John Geddes

The answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ... ~ John Geddes

The heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ... ~ John Geddes

I hide you inside me because I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind ... ~ John Geddes

God daubs stars into galaxies with fiery paint - the same lacquer he uses upon your lips ... ~ John Geddes

Paint in blue and black ... sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ... ~ John Geddes

Good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ... ~ John Geddes

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 ... ~ John Geddes

There's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul ... ~ John Geddes

And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again ... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now ... ~ John Geddes

Careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ... ~ John Geddes

My sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ... ~ John Geddes

The wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ... ~ John Geddes

I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem ... ~ John Geddes

Strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day ... ~ John Geddes

The real junk food is what Frank Lloyd Wright called light entertainment - bubblegum for the eye ... ~ John Geddes

Writers, like priests, should have compassion ... and a sensitivity to pain ... ~ John Geddes

Today there are bars of light on the rug, but Muse Cat prefers his tomato box where he can dream in private ... ~ John Geddes

Wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit ... ~ John Geddes

You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls ... ~ John Geddes

You are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me ... ~ John Geddes

I will not exorcise you - I'd miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair ~ John Geddes

I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you ... ~ John Geddes

Time begins when we awaken and ends when we fall asleep ... ~ John Geddes

...you can't be intimate unless you're sensitive... ~ John Geddes

We have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered ... ~ John Geddes

Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon ~ John Geddes

Some people are incapable of love - they have calloused souls ... ~ John Geddes

Evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it ... ~ John Geddes

I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms ... ~ John Geddes

It's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me ... ~ John Geddes

At some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are ... ~ John Geddes

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 ... ~ John Geddes

Cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters ... ~ 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

You became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close ... ~ John Geddes

It's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul ... ~ John Geddes

Don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do ... ~ John Geddes

Our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us ~ John Geddes

I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ... ~ John Geddes

I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems ... ~ 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

The real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true ... ~ John Geddes

Those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from God's altar - a star cupped in my hands ... ~ John Geddes

You ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled ... ~ John Geddes

At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ... ~ John Geddes

When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing ... ~ John Geddes

Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you ... ~ John Geddes

With you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape - like rain ... ~ John Geddes

I keep breaking things - appointments and porcelain, thinking of your lips ... ~ John Geddes

If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain ... ~ John Geddes

Don't be afraid of going by a way you've never gone - that's the way we're all going ... ~ John Geddes

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer ... ~ John Geddes

Not even the wind can bring a tear to my eye the way you do ... ~ John Geddes

When you enter a room, my wound opens, but there is light, always light, when you come in ... ~ John Geddes

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 ... ~ 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

...love is suffering - that's the happy ending... ~ John Geddes

We've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ... ~ John Geddes

These vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ... ~ 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

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

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field ... ~ John Geddes

you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips ~ John Geddes

You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window! ... ~ John Geddes

There's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and know how your love affects me ... ~ John Geddes

Have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ... ~ John Geddes

If you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while ... ~ John Geddes

You must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved ... ~ John Geddes

You see, the Highway to Hell is a toll road. Someone has to pay. And, guess what? It ain't gonna be me. ~ John Geddes

Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths ... ~ John Geddes

Language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset ... ~ John Geddes

You know the way of the wind in the night - the desolate alleys my soul takes ~ John Geddes

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 ... ~ John Geddes

A little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what do you have? postmodern soup ... ~ John Geddes

The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah ... ~ John Geddes

If you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ... ~ John Geddes

There's an impotency Viagra can't touch - the inability of a man to speak ... ~ John Geddes

He heard her in his heart - whispering from the mist ~ John Geddes

You called me poet-priest - I am ... devoted to my art, faithful to you ... or, is the other way around? ... ~ John Geddes

I send my words to you over the ether net like a message in a bottle ... ~ John Geddes

At morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock ... ~ John Geddes

Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks ... ~ John Geddes

A writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator ... ~ John Geddes

You disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ... ~ John Geddes

Allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty ... ~ John Geddes

Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart ... ~ John Geddes

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ... ~ John Geddes

Night, and the moon a blur above
I wonder where the world hides you,
and if perhaps you still love me ~ John Geddes

Some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense ... ~ John Geddes

put out the candles with your fire - I'm on fire ~ John Geddes

When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears ... ~ John Geddes

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul ... ~ John Geddes

I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe ... ~ John Geddes

I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ... ~ John Geddes

Each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ... ~ John Geddes

You knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on ... ~ John Geddes

That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror ... ~ John Geddes

...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper
... ~ John Geddes