"David Whyte" was an English professional association football/footballer who played as a Forward (association football)/striker.

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I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world --- more precise than science.

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, buy you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.