Community Quote by David Whyte

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

— David Whyte

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

— David Whyte

What you plan is too small for you to live.

— David Whyte

“It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing…

— David Whyte

Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to…

— David Whyte

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring…

— David Whyte

A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child…

— David Whyte

“Work, like marriage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself. It is a place full of powerful undercurrents,…

— David Whyte

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

— David Whyte

“...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.”

— David Whyte

It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a…

— David Whyte