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Robert Bly quotes: The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed. The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
Robert Bly quotes: Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
Robert Bly quotes: By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
Robert Bly quotes: Angels began shining when they achieved discipline. Angels began shining when they achieved discipline.
Robert Bly quotes: Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die. Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
Robert Bly quotes: Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you. Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
Robert Bly quotes: Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
Robert Bly quotes: Every breath taken in by the manWho loves, and the woman who loves,Goes to fill the water tankWhere the spirit horses drink. Every breath taken in by the man
Who loves, and the woman who loves,
Goes to fill the water tank
Where the spirit horses drink.
Robert Bly quotes: Where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. Where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
Robert Bly quotes: I knew this friendship with myself couldn't last forever. I knew this friendship with myself couldn't last forever.
Robert Bly quotes: We did not come to remain whole.We came to lose our leaves like the trees,Trees that start again. We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
Trees that start again.
Robert Bly quotes: When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
Robert Bly quotes: It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again,Drawing up from the great roots. It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots.
Robert Bly quotes: As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken. As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Robert Bly quotes: I am proud only of those days that pass inundivided tenderness. I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness.
Robert Bly quotes: If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality. If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality.
Robert Bly quotes: Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is. Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
Robert Bly quotes: Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
Robert Bly quotes: Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere. Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
Robert Bly quotes: Some men live with an invisible limp,stagger, or draga leg. Their sons are often angry. Some men live with an invisible limp,
stagger, or drag
a leg. Their sons are often angry.
Robert Bly quotes: The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
Robert Bly quotes: READY TO SLEEPDon't be afraidThe great lettuce of the worldIs all around us. READY TO SLEEP
Don't be afraid
The great lettuce of the world
Is all around us.
Robert Bly quotes: The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails. The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.
Robert Bly quotes: The best presenters have conversations with their audiences. The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
Robert Bly quotes: We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem. We have never understood how birds manage to fly,
Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,
Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.
Robert Bly quotes: If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside. If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.
Robert Bly quotes: And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut? And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
Robert Bly quotes: Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,I want to tie the two arms together,And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags. Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
I want to tie the two arms together,
And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.
Robert Bly quotes: But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party. But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
Robert Bly quotes: My life failed on the very day I was born. My life failed on the very day I was born.
Robert Bly quotes: I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people. I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.
Robert Bly quotes: I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea. I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
Robert Bly quotes: Like a note of music, you are about to become nothing Like a note of music, you are about to become nothing
Robert Bly quotes: I want nothing from You but to see You. I want nothing from You but to see You.
Robert Bly quotes: The deeper question ... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform ... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge ... The deeper question ... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform ... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge ...
Robert Bly quotes: A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this. A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
Robert Bly quotes: The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
Robert Bly quotes: Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us. Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
Robert Bly quotes: Wherever there is water there is someone drowning. Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.
Robert Bly quotes: We are bees then; our honey is language. We are bees then; our honey is language.
Robert Bly quotes: The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
Robert Bly quotes: A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takesA lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving. A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
Robert Bly quotes: We make the path by walking. We make the path by walking.
Robert Bly quotes: It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly quotes: One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!' One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
Robert Bly quotes: Be careful how quickly you give away your fire. Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
Robert Bly quotes: I know men who are healthier at fifty than they've ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone. I know men who are healthier at fifty than they've ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
Robert Bly quotes: I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.
Robert Bly quotes: You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
Robert Bly quotes: I was unfaithful even to Infidelity. I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.
Robert Bly quotes: It's all right if you grow your wings on the way down. It's all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
Robert Bly quotes: Last night in my dream a man I did not know whispered in my ear that he was disappointed with me, and that I had lost his friendship. Last night in my dream a man I did not know whispered in my ear that he was disappointed with me, and that I had lost his friendship.
Robert Bly quotes: I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon. I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
Robert Bly quotes: We will have to call especially loud to reach Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding In the jugs of silence filled during our wars. We will have to call especially loud to reach Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding In the jugs of silence filled during our wars.
Robert Bly quotes: There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget. There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.
Robert Bly quotes: The candle is not litTo give light, but to testify to the night. The candle is not lit
To give light, but to testify to the night.
Robert Bly quotes: Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,And why the sailing birds are all Romantics. Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,
And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,
And why the sailing birds are all Romantics.

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