Knott Quotes & Sayings

I am so tired of waking to the blank canvass of morning and realizing it won't be painted with you. — Tyler Knott Gregson

You were the thing
worth photographing,
the stillness
that begged
for a matte finish
and far off stare. — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

Bill Knott's poems are ... rhetorical fluff ... and fake. — Ron Loewinsohn

I would love to say
that you
make me
weak in the knees
but
to be quite upfront
and completely
truthful
you
make my body
forget
it has knees
at all. — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

Do broken pianos play broken songs? Do they have busted melodies for busted hearts? Is there a song living inside it that's waiting to get out? Her keys are shattered and her notes long since silent but I can still hear her song. Just listen, just listen. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Brighter, now brighter, pay no mind to those who squint, burn with all your heat. — Tyler Knott Gregson

We were one, once.
One continent
that floated alone
in a sea of blue.
Time and tide and
forces that exist
without the necessity
of our belief,
pulled us, into two, into many, — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

Wherever I am,
whatever I am doing,
you are in it all. — Tyler Knott Gregson

As the philosopher Gilles Deleuze put it, no painter ever stands before a completely blank canvas, no author ever sits before a blank page. In fact, the surface confronting the modern artist is full of inherited images that must first be cleared from the imagination before one can begin to create one's own. — Marie Luise Knott

I want the light filtered down through the trees painting flesh like a mosaic and filling up the dark in me. I want to see how sunset decorates your hair. — Tyler Knott Gregson

She closed her eyes, trying to remember the photos that had hung on the walls. She had passed these pictures every day, but now she only remembered them vaguely--her parents on their wedding day, her mother in a garden, her family at Knott's Berry Farm. How had she not memorized them? Or maybe she had once but she was beginning to forget. Did the house smell different because her mother's scent was gone? Or had she just forgotten how her mother smelled? — Brit Bennett

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another. — Cargill Gilston Knott

Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts — Paul Knott

I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers. — Arsenio Hall

Rise and find the grace, for it is all around you. — Tyler Knott Gregson

There is no difference:
Love is love and love is love.
We are all the same. — Tyler Knott Gregson

What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion. — Tyler Knott Gregson

If you give me home
I will give you adventure.
It's both we can have. — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

Literature destabilizes thought by breaking open language and smuggling in sound, rhythm, and image--an invasion of aesthetics. More easily than analytic writing, poetry can emancipate itself from the standard definitions of words, enabling a breakthrough to new (and perhaps wayward or even nonsensical) meaning, which can then develop after the fact--different at each new reading. Literary language is presumptuous. It dips into the unknown in order to get nearer to a truth different from that of the superficially visible. As the poet Franz Josef Czernin described it, it is as though one step after another into emptiness could become a ladder. Literary writing can take the writers themselves by surprise; it can disturb and disappoint them--for stirring up turmoil is inherent in metaphor. Thus with every flash of understanding that comes from hearing or reading a poem, the fundamental work of thinking is taken up anew. — Marie Luise Knott

I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. Success comes as you have confidence in yourself. Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small. It is the believing that makes it possible. — Walter Knott

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land. — Walter Knott

come crawl atop me
and we will spend the daylight
buried in kisses — Tyler Knott Gregson

Will you tolerate
the strangeness inside of me,
the quirks of my soul? — Tyler Knott Gregson

I believe
in love at first sight
but I will always believe
that the people
we love
we have loved before.
Many, many, many times before
and when we stumble
through grace and circumstance
and that brilliant illusion of choice
to finally meet them again,
we feel it faster
each time through.
The one glance
that set life alight
is two sets of two eyes
staring through the layers
of lifetimes and stolen glances
and first kisses and hands held;
the brace against the weight
and unrelenting tide
of waiting.
I believe
in love at first sight
but am not burdened with the misconception
that it's a first sight
at all. — Tyler Knott Gregson

For those of you with a guy best friend, ask yourself this: is he really just been your best friend? Has he always been your best friend? Is that how he sees it? Is that how you want to see it? I firmly believe that guys and girls can be great friends without love getting in the way but there are those couples who do fall for their best friends. Are you one of them? — Tyler Knott Gregson

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Please don't break this heart, it's endured so very much, it survived the fall. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Oh what we see when we finally stop looking. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Photos I'm not in
and memories we don't share,
haunt my lonely eyes. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Come here
and take off your clothes
and with them
every single worry
you have ever carried.
My fingertips on your back
will be the very last thing
you will feel
before sleeping
and the sound of my smile
will be the alarm clock
to your morning ears.
Come here
and take off your clothes
and with them
the weight of every yesterday
that snuck atop your shoulders
and declared them home.
My whispers will be the soundtrack
to your secret dreams
and my hand
the anchor to the life
you will open your eyes to.
Come here
and take off your clothes. — Tyler Knott Gregson

No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself. — Walter Knott

Was I born patient
or have the years of waiting
taught me to be? — Tyler Knott Gregson

The assumption that the square of a unit vector
is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
quantities are non-associative. — Cargill Gilston Knott

There was Arctic John, a businessman from Salisbury who doesn't hold water, Bruce Knott, a social worker from Cumberland who spends his lunch hour picking his bum, and Judith Glycerine, the reformation pig. — St John Morris

We carry in us all we could ever possibly need. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I am yours
and I will whisper it
and shout it
and write it
and carve it into my skin
if only blood
would tell you
the truth you need to see.
I am yours
and I have never
been anyone's before. — Tyler Knott Gregson

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. — Bill Knott

There is more light than darkness, there has always been. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I'll never ask you
to be anything other
than exactly you. — Tyler Knott Gregson

She is she alone,
and never needs help from me
to be all she is. — Tyler Knott Gregson

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Are they beautiful?
The lines left from suffering,
Scars of emptiness. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Sometimes
the only way
to catch
your breath
is to
lose it
completely. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Is it possible
for a heart to be exhausted?
Can it still be worn
when locked tight
in its cage?
My heart's beat
is a drum too loose,
a dull thud
where it once
was triumphant. — Tyler Knott Gregson

We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage. — Cargill Gilston Knott

Run. For your life, for your joy, for your calm and peace of mind. Run. Because your legs are strong and your lungs are aching for the taste of air. Run. Because what's the point of a life spent walking in the middle? — Tyler Knott Gregson

From heart to heart
a heartbeat staggers, looking for a haven.
Bereft. It is easier to enter heaven
than to pass through each others' eyes — Bill Knott

Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return? — Tyler Knott Gregson

Because of you I can feel myself slowly but surely becoming the me I have always dreamed of being. — Tyler Knott Gregson

A homemade cupcake deserves a homemade icing. — Kim Knott

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me. — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

I would rather hurt,
and walk through the flames you leave,
than never feel you. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Some days I wake up
and all I feel
are the fractures
in the flesh
that covers
the only me
I've ever known.
Some days,
it's those exact
fissures
that let the light
hiding inside me
pour out
and cover
in gold
everyone
that found enough beauty
in the cracks
to stand
close. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Let it go, just let it go, but if I set down that weight what will show my arms they are strong? — Tyler Knott Gregson

Was anybody shooting at you?"
-George "Judge" Knott (responding to his son-in-law after hearing complaints about the army in 1963.)

"No."
-Son-in-law

"Well then, sounds like you had a pretty good day."
-George "Judge" Knott — Jennifer Rude Klett

If you are still alive when you read this,
close your eyes. I am
under their lids, growing black. — Bill Knott

I have blisters on my feet from dancing alone with your ghost. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Don't ever tell me I'm broken if you will not be the glue, and please don't point out the fractures if that's all you're allowed to do. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
inside me
for longer than you know;
I do not know
what they are
or why they are there,
I only know
that they feel
manageable,
defeatable,
when I
am around
You. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand. — Cargill Gilston Knott

Being kissed by Wyoming Knott is more definite than being married to most women. — Robert A. Heinlein

What if time stole
my tenderness,
what if I am worn through
and grace was wasted
in the waiting?
can I climb out
of what you have buried
me under?
When will it stop feeling
like I am breathing
though a cloth soaked
in salt water?
When will home
stop being a silent cemetery
of every wish
I've had to bury? — Tyler Knott Gregson

Just keep waking up,
dragging yourself out of bed.
It will get better. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I am the empty sound
that fills the space between two
when neither one
knows what to say.
I am the moment before
the faint,
the all black and soundless fall,
I am the echoless dark
of far off space.
I am the way it never needs sound to shine. — Tyler Knott Gregson

And you loved me like I was, and had always been, the answer and the question did not, and would never, matter. — Tyler Knott Gregson

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Have you returned for me? Is this the last flash before starting anew? Will it hurt? Will it matter if it does? Was I kind enough? Did I love with more than fit inside me? — Tyler Knott Gregson

I find you in storms,
I feel you in the lightning,
I miss you in rain. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Oh what we could be
if we stopped
carrying the remains
of who we were. — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

I would imagine there are days when Superman wakes up, glances at his cape, and wonders when someone will come save him. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I am leaking letters and dripping verbs and bathing myself in the actions they long to take. — Tyler Knott Gregson

Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love. — Frederick Knott

I would be lying if I said there were not times that I am an earthquake contained inside this skin — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

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

I just may be the strangest person you will ever know. I am filled with too many oddities and too few consistencies and I will always lack the spongey filter that should live between brain and mouth. These defining traits these enduring characteristics, and these fingers crossed that in all of it, you will find them irresistible. — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

The only response
to a child's grave is
to lie down before it and play dead. — Bill Knott

If chocolate is the answer ... the question is irrelevant.
unknown — Kim Knott

They pay no mind to the spectacle behind them. They pay no mind because to them, all things are great, all things are grand. What a life if we found the focal point everywhere, in everything, the miracle in the most mundane and the stunning in the simple. — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

We
are the only
people I have ever
known
that can
make love
from across
a
crowded
room. — Tyler Knott Gregson

When I'm an old man,
I don't want to count the years,
we forgot to share. — Tyler Knott Gregson

You are the habit
that I will spend my lifetime
trying not to break. — Tyler Knott Gregson

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

The morning coffee
reminds me of your waking
I stir to find you — Tyler Knott Gregson

Lay down your roots now,
let them wrap tight around mine,
sink deep in the soil. — Tyler Knott Gregson