Adulthood Quote by Robert Bly

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

— Robert Bly

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

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

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

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

— Robert Bly

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

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

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

— Robert Bly

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

— Robert Bly

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

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

— Robert Bly

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