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.
The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed. - Robert Bly
The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
- Robert Bly
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again. - Robert Bly
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink. - Robert Bly
Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. - Robert Bly
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
We make the path by walking. - Robert Bly
We make the path by walking.
Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you. - Robert Bly
Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken. - Robert Bly
As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an e… - Robert Bly
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an e…
The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation. - Robert Bly
The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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