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David Whyte Quotes

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it’s alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

And how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love Picture Quote #1

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you Picture Quote #1

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can’t be used for manipulation; it’s why you never see good poetry in advertising Picture Quote #1

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed Picture Quote #1

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain Picture Quote #1

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The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body Picture Quote #1

There’s a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too Picture Quote #1

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence Picture Quote #1

When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love Picture Quote #1

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Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take (David Whyte Quotes) 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 (David Whyte Quotes) Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it’s alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you (David Whyte Quotes) 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 (David Whyte Quotes) And how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love (David Whyte Quotes) The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone (David Whyte Quotes) Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you (David Whyte Quotes) The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home (David Whyte Quotes) 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 Quotes) Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can’t be used for manipulation; it’s why you never see good poetry in advertising (David Whyte Quotes) Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed (David Whyte Quotes) A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain (David Whyte Quotes) The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body (David Whyte Quotes) There’s a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from (David Whyte Quotes) 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 Whyte Quotes) 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 Whyte Quotes) The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too (David Whyte Quotes) Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm (David Whyte Quotes) 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 Whyte Quotes) What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence (David Whyte Quotes) When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love (David Whyte Quotes)

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