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

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

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

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

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

- 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

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

- 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

A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

- David Whyte

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