David Whyte
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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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Honesty is concerned with understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
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Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
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Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
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Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
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Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.