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"Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket."

"All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within."

"Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins."

"Fragmentary BlueWhy make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--Though some savants make earth include the sky;And blue so far above us comes so high,It only gives our wish for blue a whet."

"When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloudAnd goes down burning into the gulf below,No voice in nature is heard to cry aloudAt what has happened. Birds, at least must knowIt is the change to darkness in the sky.Murmuring something quiet in her breast,One bird begins to close a faded eye;Or overtaken too far from his nest,Hurrying low above the grove, some waifSwoops just in time to his remembered tree.At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe!Now let the night be dark for all of me.Let the night be too dark for me to seeInto the future. Let what will be, be."

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep."
Explore more quotes by John Geddes

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

"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."

"I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely..."

"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."

"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."

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

"The fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out-a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights."

"You want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ..."

"Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ..."

"The heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ..."
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