English - Poet | 1955 -
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
David Whyte
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A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
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Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
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Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.
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A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.
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Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
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We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.
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Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.
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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
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Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
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Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
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