Best quotes by David Whyte on Life

Checkout quotes by David Whyte on Life

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

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

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• ‟ To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

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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.

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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.

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