“...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...” — John Geddes Absurdity Copy Share Image
“...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...” — John Geddes Beautiful Copy Share Image
“...your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...” — John Geddes Apology Copy Share Image
“...so now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Love Copy Share Image
“...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a… — John Geddes Friends Copy Share Image
“...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is… — John Geddes Feelings Copy Share Image
“...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea… — John Geddes Gestures Copy Share Image
“...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if… — John Geddes Good words Copy Share Image
“...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the… — John Geddes Eyes Copy Share Image
“...when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...” — John Geddes Authority Copy Share Image
“...when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...” — John Geddes Astronomy Copy Share Image
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...” — John Geddes Life Copy Share Image
“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...” — John Geddes Authority Copy Share Image
“...you trace a finger over my scar and uncloak me like a timid star...” — John Geddes Openness Copy Share Image
“...I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us...” — John Geddes Change Copy Share Image
...you knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on... — John Geddes Confusion Copy Share Image
“...don't tell me I should only talk to people with a high influence score, or I'll Klout you...” — John Geddes Humour Copy Share Image
“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...” — John Geddes Art Copy Share Image
“…my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...” — John Geddes Poetry Copy Share Image
“...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...” — John Geddes Authority Copy Share Image
“...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...” — John Geddes Beauty Copy Share Image
“...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...” — John Geddes Love Copy Share Image
“...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...” — John Geddes Dream Copy Share Image
“...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...” — John Geddes Excitement Copy Share Image
...when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real... — John Geddes Authentic Copy Share Image
“...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...” — John Geddes Love Copy Share Image
“...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...” — John Geddes Life Copy Share Image
“...a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...” — John Geddes Dark Copy Share Image
“...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of… — John Geddes Adoration Copy Share Image
“...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...” — John Geddes Idealistic Copy Share Image
“...allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...” — John Geddes Beauty Copy Share Image
