"The door to the soul is unlocked; you……" — Robert Bly
"The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to."
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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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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology…
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is…
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take…
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
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