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Robert Bly - From the Aging category:
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)
Robert Bly - From the Emotion category:
But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Friendship category:
I knew this friendship with myself couldn't last forever. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Growth category:
- My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy...
It's all right if you grow your wings on the way down. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Light category:
The candle is not lit / To give light, but to testify to the night (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Love category:
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Miracles category:
And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut? (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Obsession category:
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Poetry category:
Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Poetry category:
All poems are journeys. The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys - while remaining in the human scale - to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Religion category:
The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge... (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Renewal category:
It is not our job to remain whole. / We came to lose our leaves / Like the trees, and be born again, / Drawing up from the great roots. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Satisfaction category:
I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Spirituality category:
Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Time category:
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, / And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags. (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly - From the Watercolours category:
-My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy...
Wherever there is water there is someone drowning. (Robert Bly)
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