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Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
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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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 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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The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
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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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I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
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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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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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The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
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Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
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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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The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.
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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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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
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Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.
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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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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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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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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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Poetry is a break for freedom.
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