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Robert Bly Quotes

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken Picture Quote #1

I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone Picture Quote #1

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die Picture Quote #1

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes Picture Quote #1

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend Picture Quote #1

What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble Picture Quote #1

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By the time a man is 35 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 Picture Quote #1

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon Picture Quote #1

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry Picture Quote #1

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this Picture Quote #1

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone Picture Quote #1

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me Picture Quote #1

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends Picture Quote #1

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music Picture Quote #1

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is Picture Quote #1

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again Picture Quote #1

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As I’ve gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression Picture Quote #1

Don’t go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don’t bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching Picture Quote #1

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you Picture Quote #1

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown Picture Quote #1

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As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken (Robert Bly Quotes) I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone (Robert Bly Quotes) Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die (Robert Bly Quotes) My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes (Robert Bly Quotes) Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend (Robert Bly Quotes) What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble (Robert Bly Quotes) By the time a man is 35 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 (Robert Bly Quotes) I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon (Robert Bly Quotes) Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry (Robert Bly Quotes) A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this (Robert Bly Quotes) In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy (Robert Bly Quotes) 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 (Robert Bly Quotes) There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone (Robert Bly Quotes) I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me (Robert Bly Quotes) The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends (Robert Bly Quotes) One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music (Robert Bly Quotes) Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is (Robert Bly Quotes) We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again (Robert Bly Quotes) As I’ve gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression (Robert Bly Quotes) Don’t go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don’t bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens (Robert Bly Quotes) 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 (Robert Bly Quotes) When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching (Robert Bly Quotes) Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you (Robert Bly Quotes) To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown (Robert Bly Quotes)

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