Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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
Beauty
Word
Renunciation
Older
More quotes by 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
The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
Robert Bly
And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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
One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
Robert Bly
I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
Robert Bly
Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
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
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
Robert Bly
It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
Robert Bly
Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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
One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture that is why suburban children want rap music.
Robert Bly
It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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
If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down matter, in drudgery, takes it up.
Robert Bly
We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.
Robert Bly
I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.
Robert Bly
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
Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
Robert Bly