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Download david whyte true love7/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I recommend Roger Housden essay about this poem in "Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again. Men and women have always had difficulty with the way a love returned hardly ever resembles a love given, but unrequited love may be the form that love mostly takes.David Whyte. The very need to be fully requited may be to turn from the possibilities of love itself. David Whyte suggests that upon waking you remember whom you are and how you want to express “the vitality hidden in your sleep.” This is why I come to the cottage and why I love to wake early. Unrequited love is the love human beings experience most of the time. In a sense, all poems are good all poems are. There is no going back once this frontier has been reached a new territory is visible and what has been said cannot be unsaid. I feel an urgency to tap into that “more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world” that is there for each one of us when we peel away the layers of consciousness. The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. Those who come with empty hands will stare into the lake astonished, there, in the cold light reflecting pure snow. Step toward the cold surface, say the old prayer of rough love and open both arms. This poem speaks of what I am longing for in the solitude that I seek. In this high place it is as simple as this, leave everything you know behind. ![]()
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