I want nothing from You but to see You. Robert Bly More Quotes by Robert Bly More Quotes From Robert Bly By the time a man is 35 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. Robert Bly tough-man men school People tend to take stories literally these days. Robert Bly these-days stories people In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People. Robert Bly other-worlds echoes men If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside. Robert Bly mom want love-is 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. Robert Bly retirement mean children The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation. Robert Bly renunciation What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing. Robert Bly longing poetry-is feels One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising. Robert Bly soul sweet water Wherever there is water there is someone drowning. Robert Bly drowning water A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this. Robert Bly fart men needs Every breath taken in by the man Robert Bly horse taken men In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy. Robert Bly discipline emotional men It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. Robert Bly calamity obsession humans Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere. Robert Bly bird two past My life failed on the very day I was born. Robert Bly born Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is. Robert Bly pain Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. Robert Bly depth tragedy men When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression. Robert Bly grief years art Poetry keeps longing alive. Robert Bly longing alive If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance. Robert Bly whales sibling years
