David Whyte Quotes

Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.

Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.

It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.