Robert Bly Quotes

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• 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 a…
• If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.
• Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
• You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
• The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for…
• My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will…
• Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
• To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to…
• One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has…
• Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
• ... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
• We make the path by walking.
• But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
• And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
• The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge...
• 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…
• I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.
• Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.
• The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.
• 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…

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