Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
Linguist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
Emotion
Party
Heaven
Gusty
Times
Delicacies
Left
Tasted
Many
Delicacy
Larger
Emotions
More quotes by Robert Bly
As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
Robert Bly
The door to the soul is unlocked you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.
Robert Bly
The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
Robert Bly
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
Robert Bly
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket.
Robert Bly
What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
Robert Bly
I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
Robert Bly
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
Robert Bly
It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
Robert Bly
Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
Robert Bly
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.
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.
Robert Bly
It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
Robert Bly
If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.
Robert Bly
Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
Robert Bly
In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.
Robert Bly
A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
Robert Bly
Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
Robert Bly
Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
Robert Bly
The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
Robert Bly