David Whyte Way Quotations

We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own.

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.

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.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.