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Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
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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Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
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The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
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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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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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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 will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.
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When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.
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Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
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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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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.
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It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
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The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
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