Every time the answer has been our love and our work. In his poem about this kind of division and separation, ‘Cleave ‘, David Whyte contemplates life’s stream of comings and goings and the perpetual painful losses: “We were born saying goodbye to what we love”. The author of seven books of poetry and three books of prose, David Whyte holds a degree in Marine. With his signature charm and searching insight, David Whyte meditates on the frontiers of the past, present and future, sharing two poems inspired by his nieces hike along El Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. If birth is a shock that whisks us out of another existence, a life that is whole and not lacking, then we can spend our whole lives in a state of longing for something we can’t quite remember, that we can’t quite articulate.
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