Quotes from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I love you,
in ways
you've never been
loved,
for reasons you've never been
told,
for longer than you think you
deserved
and with more
than you will ever know existed
inside
me.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Sometimes
the only way
to catch
your breath
is to
lose it
completely.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I do not know
if I
will ever be
complete,
but I know
whatever I am,
You
will always be
the rest of
me.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Thank You"
she whispered soft
like it may
blow away
with anything stronger
than a breathe,
"for fixing me."
"You,"
I sputtered out
like the first sound
of morning,
"were never
broken.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Sometimes you look up and there just seems to be so many more stars that ever before. More. They burn brighter and they shine longer and they never vanish into your periphery when you turn your head. It's as if they come out for us and to remind us that their light took so long to come to us, that if we never had the patience to wait, we never would have seen them here, tonight, like this.

That as much as it hurts, sometimes it's all you can do, wait, endure and keep shining, knowing that eventually, your light will reach where it is supposed to reach and shine for who it is supposed to shine for.

It is never easy, but it is always worth it.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“What if it's the there
and not the here
that I long for?
The wander
and not the wait,
the magic
in the lost feet
stumbling down
the faraway street
and the way the moon
never hangs
quite the same.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I will never, ever believe in the words "too late" because it is never too late to be exactly who you wish, do exactly what you should, say exactly what needs to be heard, and live the exact life you should be living.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“You
are the poem
I never knew
how to write
and this life
is the story
I have always
wanted
to tell.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“We
are the only
people I have ever
known
that can
make love
from across
a
crowded
room.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“When we
are we
and a closet
we share,
I
will hang my clothes
in the opposite direction
as yours,
because after a wait
like this,
I think even they
deserve to always
be walking
directly towards
each other.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I am so tired of waking to the blank canvass of morning and realizing it won't be painted with you.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“We are the memory keepers and the trappers of time; stealers of stolen glances and breathless lungs from all that have been taken away. We are the noticers of subtle signs hidden in plain sight by a benevolent universe bigger than we'd ever believe...We are the directionless wanderers and the destinationless travelers and we are the crumpled map that never got packed to join us. We are the cinematic lovers and the translucent curtains saturated in light. The soundtrack to the moments without sounds and the swiftness that two bodies can become one in the stillness of a second. We, says the last string pulled out, the final string that kept it all together, balled up tight, filling us after all this time, We, are the chasers of the light.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I want to know what your skin
feels like after three days
of traveling and no bother
of a shower because what
we see is more and worth
more than how we feel.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“You have never
had to steal
my breath,
or take it away,
somehow
you have always
managed to convince me
to hand it over
freely.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I promise to plant kisses like seeds on you body, so in time you can grow to love yourself as I love you.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Brighter, now brighter, pay no mind to those who squint, burn with all your heat.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Find my hand in the darkness and if we cannot find the light, we will always make our own.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Sometimes you look up and there just seems to be so many more stars than ever before. More. They burn brighter and they shine longer and they never vanish into your periphery when you turn your head. It's as if they come out for us and to remind us that their light took so long to come to us, that if we never had the patience to wait, we never would have seen them here, tonight, like this.

That as much as it hurts, sometimes it's all you can do, wait, endure and keep shining, knowing that eventually, your light will reach where it is supposed to reach and shine for who it is supposed to shine for.

It is never easy, but it is always worth it.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Oh what we could be if we stopped carrying the remains of who we were.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Part those sheets
like holy waters
and I
will worship you skin
like a born-again
believer.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I promise to plant kisses
like seeds on your body,
so in time you
can grow to love yourself
as I love you.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I am filled with wonderings, questions and doubt,
but of one thing I am certain: it will always be you
that gives flight to the butterflies inside me;
calm to the sea I have become
and hope to the darkness all around us.
It is you and it has always been you...
you.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“If I died tonight I think I would like to come back as your morning coffee. Just as strong and just as necessary.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I am a sinking ship made of unsinkable parts.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“I am made from the creaking beams and rusted nails of a lonely vessel on a lonely sea.
I am covered and coated, dusted with old salt water and the frail residue of moonlight.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“And the sound of my smile
will be the alarm clock
to your morning ears.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“for us THERE is only one wish to be adventurous pioneers and find ourselves at the end.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

“Look up more than down. See more than say. Listen more than speak. Hope more than dread. Believe more than criticize. Yes more than no. No more than maybe. Laugh more than cry. Love more than hate. See. More. See.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, quote from Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

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