"We are living at an important and fruitful……" — Robert Bly
"We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life."
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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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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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