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I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

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
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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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We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again
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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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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 want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.
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To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation.
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But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside
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Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.
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Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
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Poetry is a break for 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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There is no house like the house of belonging.
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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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The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
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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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Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.
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To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.
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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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Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
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