Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you. Robert Bly More Quotes by Robert Bly More Quotes From Robert Bly I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. Robert Bly sibling mother father The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal. Robert Bly derrida pascal offers If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies. Robert Bly native-american culture thinking I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever. Robert Bly lasts forever When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. Robert Bly boyfriend dad children You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. Robert Bly wells writing I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. Robert Bly crafts speak roots 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 delicacy party heaven I was unfaithful even to Infidelity. Robert Bly unfaithful infidelity The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night. Robert Bly light giving night One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!' Robert Bly captains knows men Some men live with an invisible limp, Robert Bly legs men son And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut? Robert Bly caught earth men
