Robert Bly
Poet
1926-12-23
Quotes by Robert Bly
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The human face shines as it speaks of thingsNear itself, thoughts full of dreams.The human face shines like a dark skyAs it speaks of those things that oppress the living
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I have daughters and I have sons.When one of them lays a handOn my shoulder, shining fishTurn suddenly in the deep sea.
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Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
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It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again,Drawing up from the great roots.
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It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again,Drawing up from the great roots.
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I have daughters and I have sons.When one of them lays a handOn my shoulder, shining fishTurn suddenly in the deep sea.
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The human face shines as it speaks of thingsNear itself, thoughts full of dreams.The human face shines like a dark skyAs it speaks of those things that oppress the living
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Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
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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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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.
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... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
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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.
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We make the path by walking.
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