"A lazy part of us is like a……" — Robert Bly
"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 moving."
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52 Quotes by Robert Bly
Robert Bly has 52 quotes on this site.
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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…
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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a…
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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,…
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I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned…
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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…
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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean…
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be…
— Stephen Baldwin
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I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid…
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If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go…
— Lynda Barry
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In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a…
— Ben Bernanke
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who…
— Bjork
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