I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore. — 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
The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the… — 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
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or… — 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… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“ Early Morning in Your Room It's morning. The brown scoops of coffee, the wasp-like Coffee grinder, the neighbors still asleep. The… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — 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
