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It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

~David Whyte

Topics: Allowing Appearances Difficulty Gifted Human Human Life Informed Liberating Life Living Losses Might More Much Participation Present Think Witness

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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.

~David Whyte

Topics: About Away Become Conscious Conversations Go Go Away Happen Our Participation Person Questions Right Those Will Without

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There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.

~David Whyte

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Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

~David Whyte

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When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

~David Whyte

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In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

~David Whyte

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Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.

~David Whyte

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The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

~David Whyte

Topics: Ability Capable Death Essential Everyone Frail Later Like Lion Roar Seem Sounds Vulnerable Which Without

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Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

~David Whyte

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Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

~David Whyte

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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