“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories… — John Geddes Characters Copy Share Image
“...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the… — John Geddes Calmness Copy Share Image
“...yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...” — John Geddes Light Copy Share Image
“...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind… — John Geddes Beauty Copy Share Image
“...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper ...” — John Geddes Hearing Copy Share Image
“...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide… — John Geddes Failure Copy Share Image
“...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it… — John Geddes Impersonal-world Copy Share Image
...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I… — john geddes Disappoint Copy Share Image
“...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...” — John Geddes Gentleness Copy Share Image
“...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...” — John Geddes Betrayal Copy Share Image
“...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...” — John Geddes God Copy Share Image
“...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn… — John Geddes Adoration Copy Share Image
“...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt… — John Geddes Haunt Copy Share Image
“...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...” — John Geddes Latin Copy Share Image
“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but… — John Geddes Black Copy Share Image
“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...” — John Geddes Certainty Copy Share Image
“...I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem...” — John Geddes Insane Copy Share Image
“...those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from… — John Geddes Altar Copy Share Image
“...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...” — John Geddes Devotion Copy Share Image
“...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes…his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head…” — John Geddes Images Copy Share Image
“...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...” — John Geddes Conscience Copy Share Image
“...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...” — John Geddes Art Copy Share Image
“...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes… — John Geddes Inner life Copy Share Image
“...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...” — John Geddes Deeper Copy Share Image
“...yes, I wrote that for you, who can't sort out lie from lay no matter how often I explain it - crayons… — John Geddes Crayons Copy Share Image
“...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...” — John Geddes Beach Copy Share Image
“...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled… — John Geddes Beauty Copy Share Image
“...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from… — John Geddes Art Copy Share Image
“...when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...” — John Geddes Criticism Copy Share Image
“...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...” — John Geddes God Copy Share Image
“...who is the hunchback in my comic opera, but me? I'm crippled on the inside and unable to make the gestures of… — John Geddes Comic Copy Share Image
“...some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very… — John Geddes Compressed Copy Share Image
“...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...” — John Geddes Easy Copy Share Image
“...we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...” — John Geddes Buildings Copy Share Image
“...I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...” — John Geddes Beauty Copy Share Image
“...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what… — John Geddes Communication Copy Share Image
“...we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into… — John Geddes Memories Copy Share Image
“...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in… — John Geddes Tears Copy Share Image
“...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide… — John Geddes Heart Copy Share Image
“...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it… — John Geddes Emotional pain Copy Share Image
