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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

~David Whyte

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I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.

~David Whyte

Topics: Buy Day Deal Destinies Every Every Day Live Living Make Our Out People Personal Same Same Time Simply Struggles Time Trying Vision Which While Work

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There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

~David Whyte

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To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

~David Whyte

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Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

~David Whyte

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I have hundreds of poems memorized. Mostly by others, but also my own. I use the poems when I lead retreats for management groups on topics like creating teams, or coming up with a more entrepreneurial system, or creating more excitement.

~David Whyte

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If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.

~David Whyte

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In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.

~David Whyte

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It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

~David Whyte

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The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.

~David Whyte

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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