"But our gusty emotions say to me that……" — Robert Bly
"But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party."
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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 Delicacies Quotes
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for…
— Unknown Author
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Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again…
— Jim Elliot
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Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the…
— David Berkowitz
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts…
— H. L. Mencken
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Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the…
— Clifford Allbutt
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Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
— John Evelyn
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My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature…
— Euell Gibbons
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Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal…
— Walt Whitman
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I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies…
— Steve Almond
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She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on,…
— Anais Nin
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When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of,…
— Maya Angelou
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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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