Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States.
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“The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness”
Robert Bly
“I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.”
“I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone”
“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.”
“I have wandered in a face, for hours . . .”
“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”
“It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.”
“That's what I liked best about him. He put his body where his mouth was,”
“He gave me a book and said he was going to give me a quiz on the first 24 pages,”
“He had a great passion for justice.”