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John Geddes  Quotes
In the baby’s roomThe city lights areMilkyIn the curtains… Breath Gentle as rain, Sleep Quiet as snowflakes

-John Geddes

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Baby-SbreathBirthNewborn
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you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

-John Geddes

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ArtCreativityVision
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…true love is an irrevocable act – you can only give your heart away once – after that, you give as much as you have left …

-John Geddes

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…there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go…

-John Geddes

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…you must never partly love or stop half way – because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved…

-John Geddes

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GriefHurtLove
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…I’ve discovered why you fascinate – you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship…

-John Geddes

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…every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between – does it matter they’re the color of your hair – or they still fall in my memory?…

-John Geddes

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…you’ve lost perspective? Well, get it back – God alone has the third person point of view in this life …

-John Geddes

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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…

-John Geddes

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… the house is on fire, but go ahead – finish painting the verandah…

-John Geddes

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…you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean…

-John Geddes

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…the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows…

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…if it weren’t for you, mornings wouldn’t be so comforting – slippers wouldn’t scrape through the rooms of my heart…

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…I gave you painted air – tears I couldn’t weep – truths I couldn’t speak – all the words that caught in my throat…

-John Geddes

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…you do violence with your words if you force them – art is given – the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands – call it a Muse …

-John Geddes

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…we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires…

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…the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep …

-John Geddes

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…summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows…

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…the strands that connect us are frail, so don’t hang great weights on slender wires…

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…your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I’m always turning over…

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…I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you’re actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue …

-John Geddes

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…beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life – and we do too, beneath torments of tears…

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GriefLovePain
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…it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul…

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I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows

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…all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull …

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…a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator….

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…I committed a sin the day I refused you – I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be – forgive me, Love, for acting on principles…

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…true love is my religion…

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…a dream isn’t a wish – it’s an altered state of consciousness …

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…futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause …

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…it’s merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper…

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…and here’s a secret for you – everything beautiful is sad…gilded with impermanence…

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yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams

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…the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines …

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…I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce… into the idea of you…

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…all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence – in the same way grief is gnawing at me – slowly, imperceptibly… consuming…

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…it begins with isolation – demons always inhabit desolate places…

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…I recall that day on the beach – the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair…

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…each person is required to ask, ‘what is my authority?’ – on what do you base your decisions? if it’s yourself, then you are without excuse…

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…never be disappointing – you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing…

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…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…

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…these vignettes I sketch for you – what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears …

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…at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door…

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…the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I’m a heart whisperer…

-John Geddes

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…come lie beside me again and understand – the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words…

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…language always occurs in a context – you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset…

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the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror – we all have it – that shadow self – that dark heart…

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… paint in blue and black…sometimes gray – the colors of night – occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet …

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…You won’t age? I promise you this – your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they’ll bleed…

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…open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering…

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