English - Poet | 1955 -
The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.
David Whyte
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We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.
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Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
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Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
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A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.
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It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
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A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
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Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.
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There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.
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Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
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When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.
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