David Whyte Quotes

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.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFutureArtYourselfPoetryYou

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Jo Nesbo

HistoryCultureExperienceStartYou

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

Andrew Motion

TimeBirdEarlyPhoneQuietBegin

I love blue in all its shades and textures. I wear navy like others wear black, and I love the blue in flowers - cornflowers, delphiniums.

Tory Burch

LoveBlueFlowersBlackNavyOthers

Death is something that I am still trying to figure out a healthy relationship with.

Tomi Adeyemi

RelationshipDeathI AmTryingOut

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Robert Anton Wilson

ChurchMiraclesEarthNobodyMore

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes - I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes - but what is it attached to?

Molly Bloom

LoveSuccessGreatShoesSoulLook

I do receive a summary of daily news, but my work is mostly electronics and I.T.

Jay Y. Lee

WorkDailyNewsElectronicsSummary

I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.

Brian Baumgartner

DogFriendBestManBest FriendGuy

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

Bryan Adams

MusicGreatTimeSocial MediaMedia

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.

Aretha Franklin

DoorLadyNextStageNext Door

The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.

Anthony McCarten

GreatPeopleEasyYouRulesMore

The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.

Pope Benedict XVI

LovePowerEvilPlacePossibleOnly

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