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

“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.”

Men Want Children Form Culture Three Black Justice Despair Rap Criminals Justice System Criminal Justice Rap Music Criminal Justice System

Author:Robert Bly

“I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.”

Writing Children Wanted My Time Writing Poetry

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“The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.”

World Children Made Ancestor

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“When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.”

Mean Children Faces Turns Retirement Elders Phoenix

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“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.”

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“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”

Children Home Father Teaching Tears Return Dad Six Temperament Absent Boyfriend Artistic Temperament

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

Selected poemsRelated source material

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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