"By the time a man is 35 he……" — Robert Bly
"By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life."
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Robert Bly
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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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