Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.
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
Years
Advance
Naturally
Tend
Owls
Regard
Owl
Ones
Siblings
Call
Whales
Young
Sibling
Great
Ecological
More quotes by Robert Bly
Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
Robert Bly
To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.
Robert Bly
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly
Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.
Robert Bly
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
Robert Bly
I want nothing from You but to see You.
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
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
Robert Bly
People tend to take stories literally these days.
Robert Bly
Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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
It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
Robert Bly
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
Robert Bly
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.
Robert Bly
In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
Robert Bly
An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
Robert Bly
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.
Robert Bly
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
Robert Bly
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
Robert Bly
I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
Robert Bly