Robert Bly Quotes

Poet

Robert Bly, born on December 23, 1926, is a renowned American poet. His poetry is known for its profound emotion and rich imagination, which has had a profound impact on contemporary poetry.

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Famous Robert Bly Quotes

“The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?”

People Ifs Two Models Adults Disappear Adulthood

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“I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.”

People Thinking Needed Adults Recognizing Elders Sibling

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“There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.”

Able Culture Imagine Adults Tradition Genuine Devotion Planes Vertical Genuine Life

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“The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.”

Five Thousand Adults Distance Miles Elders Thousand Miles

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“In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.”

Knows Lost Adults Elders Sibling

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“We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'”

Knows Important Certain Attitude Adults Skins Opposites Longing Beer Wrinkles

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“To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.”

Ifs Years Helping Lying Next Lines Forget Adults Mysterious Retirement Adulthood

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“We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five 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.”

Knows Men Life Important Moments School Culture Given Clear Five Depends High School Adults Tough Thirty Worn Manhood Popular Culture Worn Out True Man Right Man Tough Man

Book:Iron John: A Book about Men

Source: Iron John: A Book about Men

About the Author

Born: December 23, 1926
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 123

Books & Sources

Iron John: A Book about MenRelated source material

Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011Related source material

Kabir: Ecstatic PoemsRelated source material

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Silence in the Snowy FieldsRelated source material

Talking into the Ear of a Donkey: PoemsRelated source material

The man in the black coat turns: poemsRelated source material

Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected PoemsRelated source material

Morning Poems: A Sensational Daily Poetry Collection on Waking, Mourning, and the Mystery of CreationRelated source material

Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected Poems, 1950–2011Related source material

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