The Bell and the Blackbird by David Whyte.

3/5 rating. 135 pages.

Book #35 of 2021. Read April 24, 2021.

This is a book of poetry by David.

I loved some of the lines and even whole poems in this book, but overall, I thought it was just an okay collection.

A few of my favorite lines:

– “Just beyond

yourself.

It’s where

you need

to be.”

– “I pray to be wanted

and needed

by those I have

learned to love

and those

I must learn to love.”

– “never counting our hours together as one heart,/

but counting every single one we spend apart.”

– “I want you

to come across

your self

and see

yourself,

the way I did

that first

morning,

as a beautiful

incredibly

kind

and inviting

stranger.”

– “I am a man

in

love with

possibility”

If you really love poetry, this might be a collection to check out, but I think that you probably could find a better book to spend your time getting cultured on.

Quotes:

“I want you

to knock

gently on

your

own door

and stand

there

astonished

as I do

unable

to speak

to the one

who has come

out to meet you.”

“when I look over my shoulder and smile, you are there/

to greet me, to take my hand and walk with me/

in the last of the precious light, talking together/

of some future that cannot be imagined even by my ideal./

Our love of dreaming together as good as any future arrival.”

“wanting to wake

and reach for

her sleeping hand

under the covers

to feel that slowly

curling palm

in mine telling me

this happiness is

unutterably ancient,”

“committed fully 

to the next view

along the road,

to the beckoning

horizon

of everything

that appears

and disappears,”

“The bag on my back

is full of presents,

my head

with memories,

my feet with every

step I’ve trod

along the way.”

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