Quotes from John Geddes

what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...

there's an impotency Viagra can't touch - the inability of a man to speak ...

a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...

before you, I was a doubled-up fist - now I can hold soft things, fragile as butterfly wings...

does it seem strange in the loneliness of the present time, that I run to you?...

cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...

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...

consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

you forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood...

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...

don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...

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

when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...

I look out at the world through your transparent face...

take off your sweater in the darkness and static flares as a tiny lightning storm - I am the same at the end of your fingertips ...