"The world belongs primarily to the dead, and……" — Robert Bly
"The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them."
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Robert Bly
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52 Quotes by Robert Bly
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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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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By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the…
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