Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather… — David Whyte Failing Copy Share Image
To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work… — David Whyte Beauty 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 Belong Copy Share Image
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned.… — David Whyte Abandoned Copy Share Image
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is… — David Whyte Courses 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
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
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
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by… — David Whyte Answer Copy Share Image
