Robert Bly Quotes - Page 5

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• I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

  Robert Bly

  Children, Writing, Wanted

  Source: www.utne.com

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

  Robert Bly

  Sibling, Democratic, Democratic Society

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

  Robert Bly

  White, America, Community

  Source: www.utne.com

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

  Robert Bly

  Grief, People, Trying

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• There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

  Robert Bly

  Buddhist, Hierarchy

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• 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

  People, Church, Prison

  Source: www.utne.com

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

  Robert Bly

  Writing, Wells

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

  Robert Bly

  Party, Heaven, Delicacy

  Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Robert Bly

  Men, Captains, Knows

  Interview with Francis Quinn, www.robertbly.com. April 2000.

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• I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

  Robert Bly

  Infidelity, Unfaithful

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

  Robert Bly

  Forever, Lasts

  Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.282, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Robert Bly

  Roots, Crafts, Speak

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

  Robert Bly

  Academic, Form, Sociological

  Source: www.utne.com

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• The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.

  Robert Bly

  Pascal, Derrida, Offers

  Source: www.utne.com

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