"Working Together" by David Whyte

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Society, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Sociology, Culture, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Social Sciences, On Being, Arts

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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David Whyte reads his poem, “Working Together.” This poem is featured in David’s On Being conversation with Krista, “Seeking Language Large Enough.” Find more of his poems, along with our full collection of poetry films and readings from two decades of the show, at Experience Poetry.

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0:00.0	We shape ourselves to fit this world, working together.
0:22.0	We shape ourselves to fit this world and by the world are shaped again.
0:27.6	We shape the invisible and the invisible, working together in common cause to produce the miraculous.
0:35.6	I'm thinking of the way the invisible air traveled its speed around a shaped wing easily holds our weight.
0:44.6	I'm thinking of the way the invisible air traveled its speed around a shaped wing easily holds our weight.
0:49.6	So may we in this life trust to those elements we have yet to see or imagine,
0:56.8	and find the true shape of our own self by forming it well to the great intangibles about us.
1:05.4	And find the true shape of our own self by forming it well to the great intangibles about us.

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