David Whyte Quotes

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.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1955

Topics

GoodBeautyBeautifulStoryCenter

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Jens Lekman

YourselfYouRiseBurnSometimes

Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the Earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped.

Jerome Flynn

FireManMovingEnergyBodyEarth

I'm a huge movie nerd.

John Corey Whaley

NerdMovieHuge

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Jeanne Moreau

LifeDeathSayJustNo LifeAfter

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

RecognitionAdmirationOurOurselves

What matters is that I'm making a connection with people and getting a reaction.

Tomi Lahren

PeopleConnectionMattersReaction

My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce.

Tom Douglas

FishSkinGoAheadWayOil

It's your human right to push back against something you disagree with. You do that by voting for that guy instead of that guy, or that lady instead of that lady.

Rob Halford

VotingPushLadyYouBackRight

I don't like to work with stylists - I find the relationship too intimidating - but I love fashion.

Roisin Murphy

WorkLoveRelationshipFashionFind

There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.

Joshua Michael Stern

MomentDayPeopleWorldWake UpYou

People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.

Joshua Oppenheimer

FearPurposePeopleActHistorical

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

LifeFutureLife Is ABeenSum

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