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Poetry is a break for freedom.

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
Poetry
Break
Freedom

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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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Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
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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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I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.
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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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Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
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Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.
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There is no house like the house of belonging.
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Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.
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The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
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A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.
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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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Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
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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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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
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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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To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation.
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Genius is becoming something you were all along.
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In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.
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