David Whyte Quotes

David Whyte
English Poet
Born: 1955
About Good Great Life World You
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. David Whyte
Honesty Honesty Is Humiliation Admitting Humility Indeed Exactly Powerless Where Grounded
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
You Conversation Herself Tell Invitation Contains Inviting Himself Another Reveal Always Real Person Want Who
Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end. David Whyte
Blame Honesty Fault Will Not Knowing Live Carry Know Knowing Ultimately End Where In The End Story Us Full Who
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
Truth Honesty Honesty Is Become Understanding Powerlessness Revealing How Effect Afraid Fully Found Deeply Honest
To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins. David Whyte
Regret Lose Past Control Difficult Our Tell Abide Admit About Only Unspoken Sincere Beyond Contemporary Powers Understand Greatest Fallible Sins Very Story Us Present
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
Fear Passion Enthusiasm Sign Excitement Involvement Sure Sure Sign Real Very Real Passion Little Workplace
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
Good Will Own Our Way Good Parent Parent Through Child Hearts Same Being Break Choose Many Even Grow Eventually Necessarily Watch
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
Lion Death Frail Everyone Later Ability Scaring Seem Roar Like Vulnerable Without Sounds Essential Which Capable
We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement. David Whyte
Work Hope Creativity World Possibility Kind Security More Toward Real Which Moving Engagement Less
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
Good You Fighter See Poetry Never Sharp Look Advertising Itself After Elbows Manipulation Used Why Street
Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done. David Whyte
Better Job Made Way Take Well Well Done End Done Being In The End Richer Product Include Elements Route Things Necessary
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
Life Future Eyes Regret Better Past Our High Possibly Attentive How Than Human Experienced Stakes Average Turns Human Life Fully Even Lived Alert Appreciate
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. David Whyte
Great Courage World Sets Poems Gives Poetry Friends Straight Us Companions
Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity. David Whyte
Change Reality Complexity Attempting Trying Stop Eliminate
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. David Whyte
Lyrical Poetry Practicality Which Fierce Aspect Whole Imaginative
There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there. David Whyte
Tough Daughter Difficult Relate Someone Adolescent Parent Attempting Almost Between Longer Most Partly Because Always Conversations Who Many
In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time. David Whyte
Time Heart People Minds Way Indeed Hidden Poetic Tradition Affections Hearts Same Same Time Asking Holy Organizations
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. David Whyte
Face Society Definition Reluctant Poetry Head-On Mainstream Qualities Just Dynamics Interesting Radar Works Necessity Below Phenomenon
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. David Whyte
Life Good Face Poem Through Sincere Equal Looks Revelation Loss Gain Straight
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
Beautiful Good Beauty Sense Our Everything Our Lives Has-Been Poem Taken Makes Ugliness Been Reflected Forgetting Center Story Midst Even Busyness Away Lives
In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms. David Whyte
Leadership Great You Difficulty Charismatic About Smack Talk Germany Anything Forms
Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance. David Whyte
Lie Arrogance Fear Understanding Our Trepidation Only Bound Courageous Without Behind Compassionate Speech
The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. David Whyte
Great About Poetry Against Thing
I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time. David Whyte
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It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear. David Whyte
You Fear Mother Must Deal Thing
The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it. David Whyte
Money Luxury Worry About Having Greatest Should

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