"Wherever there is water there is someone drowning." — Robert Bly

"Wherever there is water there is someone drowning."

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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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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a… — John Jay Chapman
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense! — George Carlin
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel… — Robert Collier
My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story.… — Unknown Author
Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings. — Henry David Thoreau
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can;… — Aesop
Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!,… — Bill Maher
Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running. — Roddy Piper
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic… — Scott Woods
This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We… — Don King

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