If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars,… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood;… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!' — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut? — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel… — 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
The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
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 Image
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
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 Image
