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John Geddes  Quotes
…spiritual or emotional pain doesn’t become a memory so much as a bruise …

—John Geddes

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Emotional-PainEmotionsMemories
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…I look out at the world through your transparent face…

—John Geddes

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ClarityPerspective
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….my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars – I go there often to sleep …

—John Geddes

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FoothillsPoetryRefuge
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…some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness – but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry – it can be very compressed and intense…

—John Geddes

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CompressedIntensePoetry
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…why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age….

—John Geddes

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Bill-GatesClive-BellEinstein
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You are my winter suddenness—a glass of red wine spilt across a white tablecloth

—John Geddes

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AttractionLoveSurprise
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I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn’t work

—John Geddes

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CommitmentFearLove
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…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…

—John Geddes

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Buried-SecretsConfessionHeart
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…it’s easy to express romantic love – harder to manage daily love – to forgive failings close to feelings – to divide self from soul…

—John Geddes

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…God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds…

—John Geddes

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DarkensFlowersGod
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There must always be a secret to be unwrapped at Christmas—that’s the rule

—John Geddes

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…when your heart is broken, don’t go silent – speak to God in his own language…

—John Geddes

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BrokenheartedGodGod's-Language
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…I want to live doubly – first with you and then afterwards in memory …

—John Geddes

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you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer

—John Geddes

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…you think so logically…like a hawk soaring – I feel so chaotically…like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth…

—John Geddes

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…I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists…

—John Geddes

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ContentmentLifeSeasons
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… my early writing was a silent fury – at what or whom, I had no idea – but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I’ve let it out…

—John Geddes

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Early-WritingWriting-Process
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…they say a reformed roue makes the best husband, but, Oh! Didn’t they tell you? Monsters can’t be reformed…

—John Geddes

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…God and your heart both whisper – incline your ear – don’t just learn from your head…

—John Geddes

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EarGodHead
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…I need you to be a listener – you need me to hang word on. We’re friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends…

—John Geddes

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FriendsListernerNeeds
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…the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don’t disfigure me in your eyes – because you know the price I pay for loving you …

—John Geddes

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DisfigureationEyesPast
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…people quote proverbs without realizing they’re really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression…

—John Geddes

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AuthorityProverbsTruth
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…here’s what I’ve learned – people will hurt you, but you don’t have to respond – not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed …

—John Geddes

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Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you

—John Geddes

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LongingLoveNight
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…when we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we’ll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls…

—John Geddes

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3-DCopiersHumor-Inspirational
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…I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness – now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? …

—John Geddes

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BitternessDespairEyes
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…you need to travel to see the ocean – I don’t need the ocean – I have the sky…

—John Geddes

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after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

—John Geddes

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CreativityExperiencePain
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…there’s the suffering from love and the suffering from grief – either pain permanently scars the soul…

—John Geddes

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GriefLoveScars
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…everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous – to be reminded of how they once saw the world …

—John Geddes

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ExcitementMagicalMemories
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I am a bed of sparks you breathe upon and kindle

—John Geddes

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DesirePassionRomance
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…before you, life was desolate – the past hardly worth remembering – and now, each moment a keepsake I can’t throw away …

—John Geddes

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DesolationKeepsakesLife
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…consider yourself a functional character in someone else’s novel – a background character – a person on the street – that’s the perspective …

—John Geddes

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Background-CharacterPerspectiveWriting-Advice
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…when you look at the stars, you should tremble – only dullards have become callous to this frisson …

—John Geddes

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AweCallousnessDullards
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…surely by now you must know: It’s love; it’s love—but will there ever be good news?…

—John Geddes

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Good-NewsLoveUncertainty
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we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

—John Geddes

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…I’m constantly agitated, restless – I work moments like worry beads until I see your face…

—John Geddes

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You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist

—John Geddes

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ArtVisionWriting
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…I’m not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can’t move the world – let alone your heart..

—John Geddes

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ArchimedesControlHeart
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…when I think of you it’s with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears…

—John Geddes

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CalmFearsLove
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the heart aches through nights—the broken places of neglect

—John Geddes

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GriefLossUnrequited
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when I see you, I see mystery – a pale moon’s beauty behind a veil of cloud

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…people demonize certain types of crime – it’s a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters…

—John Geddes

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CrimeDemonizeMonsters
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…my dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight – we go camping at night – it’s my lucid dream of being with you…

—John Geddes

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…I got to love solitude – to see the Moon rise and set – I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace…

—John Geddes

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CalmnessMoonSolitude
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…you mean you don’t fit characters into a plot? excatly…

—John Geddes

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CharactersNovelsPlot
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…dark embers smolder inside me – one touch and they flare – who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?…

—John Geddes

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LoveMemorySparks
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…I make no apology about stirring the depths – every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath …

—John Geddes

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…how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? – there is a garden in her face – how lovely…

—John Geddes

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CampionGardenNature
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He heard her in his heart – whispering from the mist

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A-Familiar-RainHeartJohn-Geddes
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