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To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.
David Whyte
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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
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Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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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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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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The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
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Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
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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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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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The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
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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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The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
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I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.
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Genius is becoming something you were all along.
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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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Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.
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Poetry is a break for freedom.
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The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
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Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.
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A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
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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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