Robert Bly

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness. ↗

— Robert Bly

#tenderness #humans

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken. ↗

— Robert Bly

#writing #writing-advice

It is not our job to remain whole./We came to lose our leaves/Like the trees, and be born again,/Drawing up from the great roots. ↗

— Robert Bly

#inspirational

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. ↗

— Robert Bly

#sacred #nature

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. ↗

— Robert Bly

#emptiness #horror #love #love is

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. ↗

— Robert Bly

#high #high school #images #knows #life

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. ↗

— Robert Bly

#calamity #great #human #human being #obsessions

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. ↗

— Robert Bly

#absent #children #day #during #father