"I have risen to a body not yet……" — Robert Bly

"I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon."

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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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