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David Whyte

“We name mostly in order to control but what is worth loving does not want to be held within the bounds of too narrow a calling. In many ways love has already named us before we can even begin to speak back to it, before we can utter the right words or understand what has happened to us or is continuing to happen to us: an invitation to the most difficult art of all, to love without naming at all.”

David Whyte, Consolations - Revised edition: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
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