David Whyte Quotes
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.
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I learned about poise and dignity, and I learned about what it means to be an African-American in television and what that requires in terms of what kind of position you take for yourself and how you define your own reality in a world that is still finding its footing, to say the least.
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In my dressing room, you'll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family.
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
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I used to take pride if my kids were playing basketball, and I'd be there, and I wouldn't say anything. People were obviously expecting me to yell and scream at the ref and at them and everything. I wouldn't say anything.
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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
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When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived humanity. These are standards that determine when we consider it appropriate to store beliefs just as a human being, rather than in one's capacity as an expert of one or another sort. Such stored beliefs are to be available for later use in one's own thought or in testimony to others.
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Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
