David Whyte Quotes
Quotes
Poetry“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 WhyteQuotes
Poetry“What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ 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. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ There is no house like the house of belonging. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ Love is the conversation between possible, searing disappointment and a profoundly imagined sense of arrival and fulfillment; how we shape that conversation is the touchstone of our ability to love in the real inhabited world. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ The hope for unconditional love is the hope for a different life than the one we have been given. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ 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. ”
David WhyteQuotes
Poetry“ It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others. ”
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Poetry“ What I have not seen or failed to see I leave as a gift. ”
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