See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise that you can't go on that way anymore. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you're stuck, or how you're alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you.
David WhyteA good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
David WhyteAs human beings we have this immediate gateway - youโve just to articulate exactly the way that youโre exiled, exactly the way that you donโt belong, exactly the way that you canโt love, exactly the way that you canโt move ... and youโre on your way again. Youโre on your way home. If you can just say exactly the way that youโre imprisoned - the door swings open.
David WhyteIf 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 WhyteDesire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A lifeโs work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.
David Whyte