They were, David Whyte says, like “two bookends.” More recently, he’s written about the consolation, nourishment, and underlying meaning of everyday words. He shared a deep friendship with the late Irish philosopher John O’Donohue, an all-time favorite conversation partner of mine. Krista Tippett, host: All of David Whyte’s writing points at what he calls “the conversational nature of reality.” He’s a poet and philosopher who believes in the power of a beautiful question amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life - amidst the ways the two overlap, whether we want them to or not. Used by permission.ĭavid Whyte: 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.
This interview by Krista Tippett originally aired on her show "On Being" on April 7, 2016, and then was updated and reposted on December 27, 2018. Among his dozen books, his most recent one is The Bell and the Blackbird (2018). Whyte is also an associate fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. In 1981 Whyte moved from his native England to the United States, where he leads poetry conferences, walking journeys, and lectures, and consults with major corporations on the role of creativity in business. David Whyte (born 1955) is a British-American poet, who is often quoted as saying that all of his poetry and philosophy is based on "the conversational nature of reality." With a degree in marine biology, his work as a naturalist and anthropologist has taken him to the Galapagos Islands, the Andes, the Amazon, and the Himalayas.
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