When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. (Robert Bly)
He gave me a book and said he was going to give me a quiz on the first 24 pages, (Robert Bly)
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. (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)
I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone. (Robert Bly)
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. (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)
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)
That's what I liked best about him. He put his body where his mouth was, (Robert Bly)