“We forget, at the speed this life moves, that there are so many miniature miracles occurring all around us. We see the blur of wings and head the hum of flight but seldom more. Only when we stop and truly look, do we see the intricacies of life, the miraculous mechanics of all that we share this wor…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“I rise without you and wait for the coffee scent to bring you to me.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Funny all the places I have followed my feet, Over rivers, over mountains, Over bricks that make a street. Strange all the times I’ve been so far from home, Over minutes over miles Over years and still I roam.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Don’t wander from me, I know all things will quiet if only we do.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Simple passion shared, passed between quivering breath, joined at swollen lips.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Am I craved, am I hungered for? Am I a thirst unquenched? Do you quiver at the thought of me, do you shake at the sound of my voice coming near? I do not know if I will ever be a thing desperately demanded, but if even for a moment, I am quietly longed for, this is enough, this would be plenty.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Write us not in chalk, but ink permanent, in tattoo black sunken into skin, raised and still red. Never make me cough from the dust of us, never make me wipe my hands of our story erased. Take the needle and find my fingers, draw the line and lock it, lock me, to you.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“The much needed sleep, all the slumber I’ve stolen, I’ll give back to you.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“I wake while you sleep, giving back all the slumber I’ve stolen last night.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“I'm going to kiss you, and you're going to forget your legs; know this and prepare yourself for falling.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“I wake while you sleep, giving back all the slumber I’ve stolen last night.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Back to the blacktop, to the ribbon of highway that leads us away.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“We are here now, but once. Let yourself get lost, let your heart swell and explode; I want to see the red of your joy staining your clothes. We are here, now, but once. Let yourself love unashamed, let yourself lost, and risk loss again, then emerge anew.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, instagram.com
“We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost but tonight let us not become tragedies. We are not funeral homes with propane tanks in our windows, lookin’ like cemeteries. Cemeteries are just the Earth’s way of not letting go. Let go.”— Buddy Wakefield, youtube.com
“There are massive stacks of bad choices in my backyard. Haven't finished cleaning the place up but I'm workin' on it.”— Buddy Wakefield, amazon.com
“As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry.”— Roman Payne, facebook.com
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these a…”— Robin Williams, amazon.com
“I think what scares me the most is the terrifying realization that maybe we weren’t what I thought we were that maybe you weren’t who I thought you were that maybe this wasn’t love at all.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com