Quotes by John Geddes

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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...

John Geddes

...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...

John Geddes

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

John Geddes

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

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

...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...

John Geddes

...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...

John Geddes

..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...

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

...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...

John Geddes

... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...

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

...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

...I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you...

John Geddes

...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...

John Geddes

...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...

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

...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...

John Geddes

...yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...

John Geddes

...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...

John Geddes

...we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...

John Geddes