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David Whyte on The Art of Poetry and Prose
The One You Feed
Understanding Your Reluctance
Coming to terms with your own reluctance is just understanding how difficult it is to be alive, really. If you have no sense of humour, you don't stand much of a chance in relationship. So if i am reluctant to be on stage, and yet i know that my work involves that kind of visibility, i got to really pay attention to all the ways i don't want to be there. And then this wonderful dynamic starts to occur, which the greeks addressed - they had a specific name for it: nantio dromea. It's when something that becomes fully and utterly itself immediately changes into something other than itself. I mean, there's nothing more endearing than
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