"I felt a longing to compose a radical……" — Robert Bly
"I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me."
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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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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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By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the…
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More Back Turned Quotes
This quote is filed under Back Turned Quotes,
one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
— Gertrude Stein
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I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
— Bede Griffiths
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I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had…
— Bede Griffiths
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his…
— Denis Diderot
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Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
— Eminem
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Chaz looks me dead in the eye and says, 'Why yes, Lizzie. I’m manically depressed because the girl I’ve finally…
— Meg Cabot
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But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is…
— Terry Pratchett
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back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Dealing with backstabbers,there was one thing one I learnt.They are only powerful when you got your back turned.
— Eminem
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Been walking my mind to an easy time, my back turned towards the sun.
— James Taylor
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FrOm bAckstabbeRs theRe wAs oNe tHinq I LeaRned, They`re onLy pOwerfuLl wHen yOuh hAve youR bAck tuRned. :)
— Unknown Author
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Letter to my Wife: Dear-------- Last night I was lost in a world that I hardly ever see, except when…
— Unknown Author
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