I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your… — David Whyte Fall Copy Share Image
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte Equal Copy Share Image
“after all, the identity of the one who must forgive is actually founded on the very fact of having been wounded.” — David Whyte Forgive Copy Share Image
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside — David Whyte Feeling Copy Share Image
“FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness” — David Whyte Forgiveness Copy Share Image
The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness. — David Whyte Antidote Copy Share Image
The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties. — David Whyte Behinds Copy Share Image
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. — David Whyte Aloneness Copy Share Image
If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether… — David Whyte Deserve Copy Share Image
Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. — David Whyte Arise Copy Share Image
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not… — David Whyte Artificial Copy Share Image
Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step.… — David Whyte Communication Copy Share Image
For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill,… — David Whyte Bankruptcy Copy Share Image
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have… — David Whyte Artistic Copy Share Image
When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time… — David Whyte Grants Copy Share Image
“There is no possibility of pursuing a work without coming to terms with all the ways it is impossible to do it.… — David Whyte Feeling Copy Share Image
As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way… — David Whyte Doors Copy Share Image
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's… — David Whyte Alive Copy Share Image
The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the… — David Whyte Accomplish 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 tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not… — David Whyte Answers 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 Aloneness Copy Share Image
I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love. — David Whyte Choices Copy Share Image
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities. — David Whyte Identity 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 Breath Copy Share Image
Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made. — David Whyte Be courageous Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding. — David Whyte Faculty Copy Share Image
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte Aspect 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
The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and,… — David Whyte Existence 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
Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t… — David Whyte Firsts Copy Share Image
The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we… — David Whyte Contribution 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
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are… — David Whyte Effects Copy Share Image
What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes… — David Whyte Angel Copy Share Image
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by… — David Whyte Definitions Copy Share Image
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force… — David Whyte Art Copy Share Image
Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even… — David Whyte Break 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
