David Whyte

David Whyte

Weeping

a new essay

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David Whyte
May 28, 2025
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‘Light After the Storm’ - Renvyle, Connemara. © David Whyte

Weeping

is a state of temporary enlightenment: the physically felt edge between a previously fixed presence and the sudden traumatic transformation of that fixedness, into movement, into acknowledgment, into a grief that has until now, been kept at bay. Weeping is often the most physical, and aut…

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