Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the… — David Whyte Achieve Copy Share Image
Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to… — David Whyte Black 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 Work Copy Share Image
You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a… — David Whyte Damage Copy Share Image
“In some ways Coleridge committed a form of artistic suicide attempting to solve the complicated mystery he saw in the flocking starlings.… — David Whyte Art 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
I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted… — David Whyte Bitter Copy Share Image
What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence. — David Whyte Care Copy Share Image
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by… — David Whyte Asking Copy Share Image
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous,… — David Whyte Be courageous 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 Giving Copy Share Image
The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic… — David Whyte Art Copy Share Image
To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in… — David Whyte Apotheosis Copy Share Image
Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought… — David Whyte Building 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
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
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why… — David Whyte Advertising 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
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
Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human. — David Whyte Art Copy Share Image
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside — David Whyte Feelings 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
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for… — David Whyte Existence Copy Share Image
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. — David Whyte Abandoned 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
