The Poet: David Whyte, "One Day"
"One Day"
"One day I will say
the gift I once had has been taken.
The place I have made for myself
belongs to another.
The words I have sung
are being sung by the ones I would want.
Then I will be ready for that voice
and the still silence in which it arrives.
And if my faith is good
then we'll meet again on the road,
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop and laugh and drink together again
from the deep well of things as they are."
- David Whyte
"Where Many Rivers Meet"
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"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-
it is, rather, a light by which we may see- and what we see is life."
- Robert Penn Warren
"One day I will say
the gift I once had has been taken.
The place I have made for myself
belongs to another.
The words I have sung
are being sung by the ones I would want.
Then I will be ready for that voice
and the still silence in which it arrives.
And if my faith is good
then we'll meet again on the road,
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop and laugh and drink together again
from the deep well of things as they are."
- David Whyte
"Where Many Rivers Meet"
•
"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-
it is, rather, a light by which we may see- and what we see is life."
- Robert Penn Warren
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