Quotes by John Geddes

...I gave you painted air - tears I couldnt weep - truths I couldnt speak - all the words that caught in my throat...

...you can be angry and silent, but its no use - theres no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...

...when youre hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...

...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. Were friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...

...you can use words if you wish, but Im warning you - Ive learned how to read your heart ...

... only a seer or a lover would know that Im 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 ...

...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 ...

...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain ...thats why ...

...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...

...perhaps in actions Im less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...

I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows

...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...

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

...goodness is not the absence of evil - its the light that pushes back the darkness...

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

...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...

...Im 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 ...

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

...you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...