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Robert Bly has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they…
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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of…
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Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we…
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I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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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.
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