John J. Geddes
19 quotes
"...within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been..."
"...glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain..."
"children need calm—they’re artists"
"had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses… soft as April snowflakes"
"I get mixed up with the life we led and the life I imagined"
"deprived of magic, wonder wanes"
"my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude"
"I’m mad with loneliness and you’ve been haunting me all day"
"the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same"
"Be careful—my heart is broken—and you could fall in"
"I took you to that windy hill where stars on every side fall away"
"I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance"
"I live in a house of secrets, but I’ve unlocked a few rooms for you"
"You are perfect and have no synonym"
"only the gentlest hands can brush away tears"
"a rainy walk through leaves will cure almost anything"
"Rain, hold me in your glassy arms—cover me in wet kisses"
"you’re gone andyour unfinished poemlies alone on my desk—empty of tears,I only hope it rains today"
"summer is in me—clouds and lakes of shadows, rippling under the trees"