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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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The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
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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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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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Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
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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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We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again
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There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.
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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
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The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
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It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
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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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What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
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What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.
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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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Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
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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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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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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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