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Author - David Whyte
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life
Stop trying to change reality by eliminating complexity.
Good
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation....
Against
The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.
Good
A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our....
Life
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned....
Human
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer....
Great
In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership.....
story
the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story
self doubt
...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg....
Alone
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to....
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