A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. David Whyte equalfacegain Change image and share on social
Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. David Whyte closehearhonesty Change image and share on social
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 abilitycapabledeath Change image and share on social
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness. David Whyte afraiddeeplyeffect Change image and share on social
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. David Whyte aspectempiricismfierce Change image and share on social
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves. David Whyte beingbelongdesperate Change image and share on social
A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away. David Whyte beautifulbeautybrace share on social
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. David Whyte alertattentiveaverage Change image and share on social
It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection. David Whyte affectioncreativedifficult Change image and share on social
One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity. David Whyte breakcompetencydifficulty share on social
