Feels Quote by Robert Bly Download Open image “What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.” — Robert Bly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feels Longing Poetry Poetry is
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totality of this living spirit of Japan. It deals with those aspects which have produced and maintained haiku into the present day. The important key to understanding comes with the realization that in Japanese art one strives always for the absolute. Of the absolute there… — Kenneth Yasuda Copy Share
“The songs of Japan take the human heart as their seed and flourish as myriad leaves of words. As long as they are alive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd… — Susan Minot 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
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all know what it feels like to love someone and care about them and want to protect them. — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
