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Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.
David Whyte
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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Poet
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.
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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 you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.
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The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
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Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.
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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
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Genius is becoming something you were all along.
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