Robert Bly Quotes - Page 5

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

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.

But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.