Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte 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 Copy Share Image
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. — David Whyte Aloneness 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
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 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
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 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 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
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
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not… — David Whyte 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
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Discipline 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 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
“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 ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness” — David Whyte Forgiveness Copy Share Image
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside — David Whyte Copy Share Image
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte 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 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 Copy Share Image
Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. — David Whyte 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 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 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
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by… — David Whyte 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
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is… — David Whyte 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 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 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 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
