Quotes by : David Whyte

Forgiveness is a heartache and difficult to achieve because strangely, it not only refuses to eliminate....

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation....

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

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

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our....

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer....

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership.....

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face....

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to....