David Whyte Want Quotations

A real 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.

If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.