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.

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.

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

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

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.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

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.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.