01Undated...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...John Geddes / quote ↗
02Undated...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...John Geddes / quote ↗
03Undated...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...John Geddes / quote ↗
04Undated...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...John Geddes / quote ↗
05Undated...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....John Geddes / quote ↗
06Undated...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...John Geddes / quote ↗
07Undated...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...John Geddes / quote ↗
09Undated...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...John Geddes / quote ↗
10Undated...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...John Geddes / quote ↗
11Undated...don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...John Geddes / quote ↗
12Undated...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 / quote ↗
13Undated...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...John Geddes / quote ↗
14Undated...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...John Geddes / quote ↗
15Undated...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...John Geddes / quote ↗
16Undated...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...John Geddes / quote ↗
17Undated...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...John Geddes / quote ↗
18UndatedRedheadAll over the houseStrands of copper hairLike filaments from a cobwebCollect.If you and IWere ever to part— For months, perhaps years,I’d be combing out,Brushing or picking upStrands of significance,Traces of youIn my lifeJohn Geddes / quote ↗
19Undated...we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...John Geddes / quote ↗
20Undated...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...John Geddes / quote ↗
21Undated...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...John Geddes / quote ↗
22Undated...spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...John Geddes / quote ↗
23Undated...everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...John Geddes / quote ↗
24Undated...we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into the sea...John Geddes / quote ↗
