I want nothing from You but to see You. Robert Bly More Quotes by Robert Bly More Quotes From Robert Bly There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods. Robert Bly quality angel spiritual You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you. Robert Bly islands long looks Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry. Robert Bly prison church people Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief. Robert Bly sociological prose grief The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult? Robert Bly adults two people Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. Robert Bly hierarchy catholic church There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry. Robert Bly hierarchy buddhist 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?' Robert Bly wrinkles beer attitude I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society. Robert Bly sibling people thinking I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore. Robert Bly wanted writing children Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards. Robert Bly fairy-stories rights believe An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead. Robert Bly elders world 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. Robert Bly made children world What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have. Robert Bly grief trying people Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. Robert Bly sociological academic form 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. Robert Bly miles distance adults Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community. Robert Bly community white america All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society. Robert Bly sibling school thinking The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society. Robert Bly democratic-society democratic sibling It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God. Robert Bly tea
