I love to read, which should be obvious from the “book” part of the title. I will read almost anything, but I’m choosy with my favorites. One of those is David Whyte.
Poetry is one of those things, in my opinion, that is either very good or very not. For that reason I don’t read much of it. But David Whyte is a poet well worth looking up. Here’s one of my favorite quotes, from his book Pilgrim. The poem is called “Traveller.” Excerpt:
“…as if we were were meant
to know
what we wanted
to know
only tomorrow,
as if we were,
after all
from the very beginning
born
far beyond ourselves,
our whole being
a travelling onward ghost,
that sees itself
only
in looking back…”
Food for thought, no?
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