"Every part of our personality that we do……" — Robert Bly
"Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us."
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52 Quotes by Robert Bly
Robert Bly has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
- The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created…
- There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a…
- Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally,…
- I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned…
- The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
- When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
- I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the…
- Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
- What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean…
- Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
- It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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