01Undated...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...John Geddes / quote ↗
03Undated...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...John Geddes / quote ↗
04Undated...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...John Geddes / quote ↗
05Undated...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 / quote ↗
06Undated...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...John Geddes / quote ↗
07Undated...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...John Geddes / quote ↗
08Undated...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...John Geddes / quote ↗
09Undated...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...John Geddes / quote ↗
13Undated...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...John Geddes / quote ↗
14Undated...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...John Geddes / quote ↗
15Undated...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...John Geddes / quote ↗
16Undated...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...John Geddes / quote ↗
17Undated...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...John Geddes / quote ↗
18Undated...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...John Geddes / quote ↗
19Undated...you know I wanted a Madonna, not a whore - I made you sacred offering you my words...John Geddes / quote ↗
20Undated...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...John Geddes / quote ↗
21Undated...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 / quote ↗
22Undated...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...John Geddes / quote ↗
23Undated...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 / quote ↗
24Undated...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 / quote ↗
