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Quotes About John Geddes

...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...
~ John Geddes
beauty is not symmetry of parts- that's so impotent -as Mishima says, beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, & finally destroys...
~ John Geddes
you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...
~ John Geddes
all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...
~ John Geddes
it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
~ John Geddes
you lifted the veil when you admitted you had no memory of that day - it was so special and your lack of recall so monstrous...
~ John Geddes
people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
~ John Geddes
across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...
~ John Geddes
skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...
~ 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
...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
...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...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, A Familiar Rain
...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain