Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat. — David Whyte Art Copy Share Image
Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” — David Whyte Alive Copy Share Image
“the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story” — David Whyte Life Copy Share Image
Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. — David Whyte Heaven Copy Share Image
To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. — David Whyte Gift Copy Share Image
We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and… — David Whyte 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
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
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive… — David Whyte Alive Copy Share Image
A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you… — David Whyte 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 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 Copy Share Image
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken… — David Whyte 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a… — David Whyte Attention Copy Share Image
Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the… — David Whyte 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
“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
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
Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do.… — David Whyte Attention 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
“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
“At the beginning of the twenty-first century, to feel alone or want to be alone is deeply unfashionable: to admit to feeling… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. — David Whyte Inheritance Copy Share Image
I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. — David Whyte Body 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
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves. — David Whyte 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
