David Whyte may refer to: (wikipedia)
It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.
Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.
Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.
Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.
