David Whyte
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.Collection: Intimacy
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.Collection: Loss
Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.Collection: Doe
When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love.Collection: Tired
You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.Collection: Divorce
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.Collection: Other Worlds
For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.Collection: Engineering
Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.Collection: Art
Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.Collection: Shadow
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.Collection: World
I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.Collection: Passion