John Geddes Quotes - Page 2

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

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...

...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...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

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

You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us

Your skin is transparent as distilled moonlight

I love watching you – you’re a silent film of gestures

your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky

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

...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...

...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...

...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow...

...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...

...some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart...