Quotes from John Geddes

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

you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...

true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

you don't need a calling to minister love...

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

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

writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

the furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes...

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love...

is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn't that what love is all about?...

I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...

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

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

you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed...

little children adore me - I'm a Troll Tamer and they know it!...

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...

you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...

you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don't - I've buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up...

I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...

they say a reformed roue makes the best husband, but, Oh! Didn't they tell you? Monsters can't be reformed...

it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...

have you been waiting all this time, faithful as always, my Life?...

you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...