Robert Bly Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Bly
Robert Bly Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
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.
Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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.
Who loves, and the woman who loves,
Goes to fill the water tank
Where the spirit horses drink.
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots.
If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality.
The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
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.
Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,
Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.
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.
I want to tie the two arms together,
And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.
But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.
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.
The deeper question ... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform ... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge ...
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.
It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
I know men who are healthier at fifty than they've ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.
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.
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.