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Famous Robert Bly Quotes
“The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.”
“Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.”
“In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.”
“The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.”
“I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.”
“An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.”
“The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.”
“It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.”
“Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.”
“The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.”
“I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.”
“It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.”
“I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.”
“A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.”
“As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.”
“The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.”
“The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.”