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Quotes from John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...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 Familiar Rain
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...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, A Familiar Rain
...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
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I can't grasp the stars, but I love them – in the same way, I love you...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...true love is my religion...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain