Praise for Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity (Riverhead 2001)

"David Whyte's exploration of the meaning of work could not come at a better time. With a poet's sensibility, he lays bare the terror and joy, the loneliness and participation, the connection of our inner and outer worlds - the possibility that good work holds for each of our lives. Keep this beautiful book with you and you will discover, as I have, a still point amid our slightly mad world."

- Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline
and Coauthor of Schools That Learn

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"This may be the most consoling piece of writing ever published on the subject of work. Not work as Hobbesian toil, personal achievement, or financial gateway, but work as a life-long expression that can be deeply satisfying and awakening. Crossing the Unknown Sea is like a Grail that reconfers dignity to what has been demeaned by our preoccupation with monetary wealth. I felt calmed by it, restored to the possibility that work can proceed slowly and steadily to meaning and realization."

- Paul Hawken
author of The Ecology of Commerce

"Whatever you do, don't call David Whyte a coporate poet. He is a poet who works in the land of the bottom line. Returning to the world of verse from the land of the bottom line fits with what he tells executives: 'You cannot choose either the artist or the pragmatist inside you. There's a place for both.'"

- The New York Times