A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.
From David Whyte
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
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