The House of Belonging (1997)
David Whyte
Many Rivers Press
“When I went full-time as a poet, I was only a year into it, and I spoke in Washington, D.C. at a large psychological conference. At the end of the conference was this line of people, and at the end of the line was a man who, in best American fashion, said, ‘We have to hire you.’ And I said in best Anglo-Irish fashion, ‘For what?’ He said enthusiastically, ‘To come into corporate America.’ And I said, ‘For what?’ And he said a marvelous thing, actually. He said, ‘The language we have in that world is not large enough for the territory that we’ve already entered. And in your work, I’ve just heard the language that’s large enough for it.’” — David Whyte in The Conversational Nature of Reality, a conversation with On Being’s Krita Tippett¶
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