Author: David Whyte

Quotes

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

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

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.

- David Whyte

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

- David Whyte

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

- David Whyte

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.

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

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

- David Whyte

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.

- David Whyte

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

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

- David Whyte

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

- David Whyte

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