john-geddes Quotes About love

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“...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...”

Love Heart Wise Words True Love Irrevocable Leftovers

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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? ...”

Love Wise Words Despair Rain Bitterness Eyes Tenderness Illusions

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“...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..”

Love Beauty Power Smile Desperation

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“...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ...”

Love Pain Poetry Lies Disappointment Liar Sorrows

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“...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...”

Love Soul Poetry Words Disappointment Shy Warnings Timid

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“...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...”

Love Disappointment

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“...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...”

Love Poetry Worry Codependency Worry Beads

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“...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...”

Love Hell Dante Beatrice Labryrinth

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“...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...”

Love Stars Moonlight Shimmer Silvery

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“...you ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled...”

Love Stars Beauty Goddess

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“...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...”

Love Stars Beauty Adoration

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“...I can’t grasp the stars, but I love them – in the same way, I love you...”

Love Stars

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“I am in love with the stars of night - I have made them audible...”

Love Stars

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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...”

Love Night Stars Dreams Clouds Poetry Quotes Camping Firelight

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“...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...”

Love Sin Selfishness Repentance Refusal Hard Hearted

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“...I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...”

Love Beauty Redemption Purity Blackness

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

Love Poetry Kisses Snowflakes

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“...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues...”

Love Moon Jealousy Virtues

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“...I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love...”

Love Jealousy Protectiveness

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“...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...”

Love Pain Grief Tears Spring Rain

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“...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...”

Love Beautiful Snow Gentleness Softness

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“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...”

Love Longing Poetry Quotes Poem Poetry Poet

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“...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...”

Love Art Safe Stones Safety Sacred

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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?...”

Love Memory Sparks Touch

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“...Why did just my eyes adore you - Have you ever wondered that? well, as Hegel said, “Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”...”

Love Adoration Hegel

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“...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...”

Love Worship Muse Adoration Temple

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“...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?...”

Love Worship Words Adoration

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“...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...”

Love Worship Saint Adoration Blaspheme

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“...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...”

Love Women Worship Adoration Deify

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“...loveliness is the Milky Way... but also all the myriad points of radiance streaming from your beauty...”

Love Beauty Adoration Milky Way

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“...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...”

Love Worship Adoration Fulfilment

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“...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...”

Love Wonder Mystery Worship Fascination Adoration

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“...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...”

Love Sacred Words Adoration Liturgy

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“...if it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart...”

Love Heart Rooms Comfort Poetry Quotes Slippers Mornings

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“...who is the hunchback in my comic opera, but me? I'm crippled on the inside and unable to make the gestures of love...”

Love Comic Crippled Hunchback

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“... only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...”

Love Light Fire Words Lover Poetry Love Seer Bedazzle Jewelery

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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..”

Love Heart Control Lever Archimedes

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“...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?”

Love Children Poetry Eyes Dark Eyes

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“...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...”

Love Magic Rhythm Of Living

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“...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...”

Love Feelings Poetry Deep Feelings Touches

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“...when everything changes, I need a bookmark - I need you...”

Love Dependence Pause Selah Anchor Bookmark

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“...the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...”

Love Purpose Missing You Poetry Quote The Wind

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“...yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...”

Love Magic Spells Lights Sex Magick

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“...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...”

Love Hurt Grief Superficiality

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