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“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 poetry in advertising.”

Quote by David Whyte

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David Whyte, born on November 2, 1955, is a renowned poet whose works are known for their profound emotion and philosophical insights. His poetry covers themes of life, nature, and the human condition. more

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“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 heartbreaks we have traversed.”

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“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 world.”

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“I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.”

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“In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.”

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“The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.”

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“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.”

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

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“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 what they want.”

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