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“What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.” quote by David Whyte — Download Open image

“What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.”

David Whyte

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“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back for the poet once this frontier has been reached; a new territory is visible and what has been said cannot be unsaid. The discipline of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which it…

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

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

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