"If you want the truth, I will tell……" — Robert Bly
"If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside."
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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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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
— Saint Augustine
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
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Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's…
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue,…
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