David Whyte is an English poet and author. He is known for using poetry to foster conversations on creativity, engagement, and social responsibility in businesses across the US and UK.
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Poet/Philosopher David Whyte in an intimate conversation about the challenges and experience of belonging.
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Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction.
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Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without, vulnerability is not a choice, vulnerability is the underlying, ever present and abiding undercurrent of our natural state.
The discipline of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which it is impossible to retreat.
David Whyte recites his own poem Start Close In.
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In these pages, some of today’s most wonderful culture-makers—writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers—reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character.
"The lowest trees have tops..."--William Shakespeare
I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living, falling toward the center of your longing.
In this book, poet David Whyte turns his attention to the deepest longing of human beings - the desire to belong to people and places and the many ways of experiencing a sense of home.
Poet David Whyte reads his original poem titled “The Lightest Touch” about the physical act of writing poetry. He reads it at the discussion he had with Krista Tippett, hosted by Cambridge Forum.
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The discipline of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which it is impossible to retreat.
