"A person who discreetly farts in an elevator……" — Robert Bly
"A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this."
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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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More Discreetly Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries,…
— Theodor Herzl
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Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the…
— Grenville Kleiser
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact…
— Alice Munro
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Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good…
— Alamgir Hashmi
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How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter…
— Pope Francis
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We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are…
— Esther Perel
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"Hi," I said. She came over, licked my hand discreetly, allowed herself to be scratched for a time, chased her…
— Stanley Bing
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company;…
— William Wycherley
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But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
— Marie de France
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Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and…
— Fredric Wertham
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so…
— Bram Stoker
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
— Edmund Waller
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