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

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
Imaginative
Fierce
Aspect
Poetry
Comes
Whole
Empiricism
Practicality
Lyrical

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The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
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To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
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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 fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
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Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.
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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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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
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