Tyler Kent White

I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

Would you believe me if I said you were three shades short of all my favorite hues and that I’ve been trying for years to pick words from my garden throat in attempts to explain to you all the things I can’t explain. Or what if I said I have nothing to say other than I love you in the simplest of ways.

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.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Insight emerges out of silence.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Time wounds all heels.

The basis of peace should be a world federation.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.