David Whyte (Part 2)

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 116 minutes

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David Whyte returns to continue his conversation in Part Two. David Whyte is a prolific Irish poet, philosopher, and speaker whose work that spans nearly four decades has resonated with audiences around the world. Beginning his career in 1986, Whyte has published three books of prose and ten volumes of poetry, including Still Possible and Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. Through his Three Sundays Series, he creates immersive experiences for his audience that invite reflection on the complexities of human existence in 75-minute online sessions. His latest collection, Consolations II, continues his exploration of language and the choices that shape our daily lives. This month, Whyte is commencing the Consolations II England & Scotland Book Tour, which will move through Edinburgh, London, Oxford and Brighton. In January, he will speak daily at the Wisdom & Wellbeing Week 1 Intensive in Nosara, Costa Rica, alongside Henry Shukman, Leslie Salmon Jones, and Jeff W. Jones, building a foundation for each day’s conversation by sharing meaningful poetry and thought-provoking commentary. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Vivo Barefoot http://vivobarefoot.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Tetrogrammaton
0:02.0	Tetragrammaton
0:05.0	Tectrogrammatian Poetry is seamless with actual reality.
0:25.6	Good poetry, that is. Bad poetry doesn't know it at all, as we know.
0:29.6	So, poetry is the disappearance of the wall, the disappearance of the veil.
0:36.6	As I say, I think it's a living entity, a good poem.
0:41.3	So it's almost like a tree you've planted.
0:43.3	You can walk around it in the future and see it from different angles.
0:47.3	And then if it's alive, you've unconsciously written many different layers into it,
0:52.3	some of which you're not fully conversant with yet in your life.
0:57.0	So I'm always amazed when I go back to the first volume I wrote songs for coming home,
1:02.0	which are very simple poems because at that time I knew that I was just supposed to get the sounds right on the page.
1:10.0	That narrative is something that takes,
1:13.9	I think, many years of application to bring into poetry, not into prose, but to bring narrative
1:21.8	into poetry is exceedingly difficult. So to begin with, I was just trying to get the sounds right on the page
1:28.7	that were absolute representations of a physical inner experience. So I'm amazed when I go back
1:36.7	and one of the greatest compliments you can be given in Ireland, I was one sitting with Ireland's greatest Elylein Piper's,
1:46.0	you know, Blackie O'Connell, and he's a friend of mine now.
1:50.0	But I was very shy and he said, come on, play a jig, you know.
1:54.0	So we played the Kilfenora jig and a couple of others, you know.
1:58.0	And I put the fiddle down at the end and he turned to me and he gave me
2:01.6	the ultimate compliment which is jesus there was nothing wrong with that he said that's the
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