
David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
On Being with Krista Tippett
You Must Learn One Thing, the World Was Made to Be Free
I have this poem actually, which i wrote out of when i was in the very intense period out of which that poem, the house of belonging, came. It's called sweet darkness. And it's about tha same place wer wer were were. I wrote it on widby island, huglingly in the puget sound north of seattle. When your vision his gone, no part of the world can find you. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you trest, to tippet. The night will give you a horizon further than you can see.
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