Tyler Kent White

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

The universe, at any given point, in any given time, is expanding indefinitely in all directions. So trust me when I say, ‘you are the center of mine.’

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.

One day I will kiss you, kiss you with lips that understand, kiss you with lips that can better explain, that can speak in so many languages. They will know how to say I love you in ways you have never heard, in ways that sound unlike anything any other man has mouthed before, false promises and fairy tales they did not ever believe in. One day I will kiss you, pressed words between your lips. I will kiss you and they will rattle between your teeth, run down your throat, and fill your lungs. They will echo against your ribs, they will reverberate through your limbs, they will dress every corner you’ve kept sadness hidden away until all that grows inside of you is the understanding that you are enough. One day I will tell you all about my paper napkin theories, algorithms I formed that demonstrate how the sum of all that you are, is greater than infinity, but to me you have always been the one.

You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

Truth over Harmony.

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you’ll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.