"You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't……" — Robert Bly

"You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway."

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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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