David Whyte

David Whyte

Haunted

is a word that denotes an unresolved parallel

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David Whyte
Oct 31, 2025
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We cease to be haunted when we cease to be afraid of making what has been untouchable real and touchable again: especially our understandings of the past, and especially those we wronged.

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