David Whyte (20 April 1971 – 9 September 2014) was an English professional footballer who played as a striker. Read full biography of David Whyte →
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... →
A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very... →
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... →
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the... →
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... →
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present... →
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your... →
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence.... →
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful... →
David Whyte (20 April 1971 – 9 September 2014) was an English professional footballer who played as a striker.