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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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To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.
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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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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
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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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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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What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
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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 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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Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.
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Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
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The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
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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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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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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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We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again
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The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
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We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
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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 is no house like the house of belonging.
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