I want nothing from You but to see You. Robert Bly More Quotes by Robert Bly More Quotes From Robert Bly Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. Robert Bly fertile library persons The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails. Robert Bly connections failing reader I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea. Robert Bly daughter hands son The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge. Robert Bly reform religious religion 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. Robert Bly retirement lying years The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too. Robert Bly confused catholic kings A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving. Robert Bly tumbleweeds lazy moving The best presenters have conversations with their audiences. Robert Bly audience business conversation I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone. Robert Bly important ordinary thinking In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good. Robert Bly independent able energy Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live. Robert Bly daughter parent writing All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing. Robert Bly girl night boys I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket. Robert Bly half writing father Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live. Robert Bly half views want I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people. Robert Bly distance people years Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.' Robert Bly divine-feminine wine attention Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border. Robert Bly sibling care war During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing. Robert Bly he-man house men The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs. Robert Bly made song world As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken. Robert Bly being-yourself taken might
