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The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
David Whyte
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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
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Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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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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The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.
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What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?
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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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We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
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Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.
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Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
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We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.
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Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.
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A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.
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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
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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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Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.
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Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
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Genius is becoming something you were all along.
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We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own.
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Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.
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But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside
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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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