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David Whyte Quotes

English - Poet | 1955 -

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.

Good Beauty Beautiful Story Center

Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.

Job End Better Well Done Done Way

To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

Life Future Eyes Past Regret Better

Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

Wisdom Power Path Lion Speak Speech

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

Life People Language Quiet Living

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

Good Identity Question Shapes Asking

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

Change Reality Trying Stop Eliminate

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

Life Think Present Living Human

It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

Creative Feel Affection Difficult

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

Relationship Alone Great Moment You

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

Good Child Parent Grow Choose Way

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

Fear Lie Arrogance Understanding Our

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