An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of… — Robert Bly Copy Share
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So… — Robert Bly Copy Share
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying… — Robert Bly Copy Share
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly Copy Share
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in… — Robert Bly Copy Share
Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has… — Robert Bly Copy Share
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult? — Robert Bly Copy Share
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people. — Robert Bly Copy Share
One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire… — Robert Bly Copy Share
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. — Robert Bly Copy Share
We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our… — Robert Bly Copy Share
Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact… — Robert Bly Copy Share
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he… — Robert Bly Copy Share
The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the… — Robert Bly Copy Share
