Quote

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

David Whyte

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Imaginative
Fierce
Aspect
Poetry
Comes
Whole
Empiricism
Practicality
Lyrical

More quotes by David Whyte

Image
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.
David Whyte
Image
We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again
David Whyte
Image
To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
David Whyte
Image
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
David Whyte
Image
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.
David Whyte
Image
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.
David Whyte
Image
and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love
David Whyte
Image
The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
David Whyte
Image
Poetry is a break for freedom.
David Whyte
Image
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
David Whyte
Image
Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.
David Whyte
Image
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.
David Whyte
Image
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.
David Whyte
Image
Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.
David Whyte
Image
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.
David Whyte
Image
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
David Whyte
Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
David Whyte
Image
I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.
David Whyte
Image
There is no house like the house of belonging.
David Whyte
Image
Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
David Whyte