Quotes by : David Whyte

Stop trying to change reality by eliminating complexity.

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....

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

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

One of the most beautifully disturbing questions we can ask, is whether a given story we tell about our....

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....

the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story

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