David Whyte - Live to the Point of Tears -- Excerpt from the DVD - "Live in San Francisco"

I often think one of the definitions of the courageous conversation is that it's the one you don't want to have start closing don't take the second step on the third start with the first thing else in step you don't want to take I'm interested in these milestones that make up human presence I don't think happiness is actually a big enough word happiness is part of it but you can have tremendous presence when you're the saddest person in the world when you've lost someone close to you but you can feel that sadness with an exquisite kind of beauty and I remember feeling that way when I lost my mother and my father I kind of as Yeats would have said si s terrible beauty and he felt when you were feeling that kind of intensity the happiness and unhappiness were in many ways irrelevant you're constantly being given this information that you should be everything except your courageous South San Francisco all the places around the world where people read or listen to my work probably has the greatest concentration of people who followed the poetry followed the voice and so there will be a thousand people here tonight I feel a tremendous sense of anticipation I've got layers of my own history of coming here different epochs in my life it's a very young port and steadily as the years go by to built up listenership a readership people who come to my events you could say they're reading me like they're reading my poetry in a way and they're following the unfolding of each chapter none of us really knows how the trapped is going to proceed or what themes or characters are going to make yourself known I just like to say how my office is just to be in San Francisco

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Length: 2min 45sec (165 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 22 2009