If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?
David WhyteThere's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
David WhyteI 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.
David Whyte