All Robert Bly Quotes
- The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. Beginning
- The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature… Aging
- There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is… Age
- Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the… Aim
- I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. Back Turned
- The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. Crafts
- When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. Absent
- 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. Daughter
- Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere. Bird
- What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul… Across
- Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is. Agreed
- It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. Calamity
- 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… High
- The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place… Bee
- 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. Body
- 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 lives… Bag
- When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to… Able
- Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings. Doorway
- As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression. Able
- We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the… Adult