“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no… — David Whyte Poetry Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Poetry Copy Share Image
What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill? — David Whyte Breaths Copy Share Image
“It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The… — David Whyte Fear Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the… — David Whyte Ability Copy Share Image
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion… — David Whyte Ability Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but… — David Whyte Art Copy Share Image
“Work, like marriage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself. It is a place full of… — David Whyte Communication Copy Share Image
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home. — David Whyte Exile Copy Share Image
“...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the… — David Whyte Life Copy Share Image
It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can… — David Whyte Broken Copy Share Image
“FINISTERRE The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken, into the western sea, and the moon rising behind… — David Whyte Journey Copy Share Image
“We can never know in the beginning, in giving ourselves to a person, to a work, to a marriage or to a… — David Whyte Different ways Copy Share Image
“When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find… — David Whyte Beyond love Copy Share Image
“You must learn one thing: the world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one… — David Whyte Freedom Copy Share Image
“All the evidence from the science of complexity says that given certain clear parameters...communities or teams will become self-organizing. They will be… — David Whyte Organizational-development Copy Share Image
We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering. — David Whyte Capable Copy Share Image
Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening… — David Whyte Again and again Copy Share Image
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing… — David Whyte Allowing Copy Share Image
What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside, can seem more like constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds… — David Whyte Chamber Copy Share Image
What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the… — David Whyte Enough Copy Share Image
A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you… — David Whyte Communication Copy Share Image
