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 (born December 23 1926) is an American poet author activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement most famous for his Iron John: A Book About Men (1990) which spent 62 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list.