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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
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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
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Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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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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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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I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
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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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The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
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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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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
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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.
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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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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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