Robert Bly Quotes

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Robert Bly

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

Robert Bly (My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy)

There is a privacy I love in this snowy night.
Driving around, I will waste more time. 

Robert Bly

My life failed on the very day I was born.

Robert Bly (My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy)

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Robert Bly

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness

Robert Bly

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

Robert Bly (My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy)

So I am proud only of those days that we pass in undivided tenderness.

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 want nothing from You but to see You.

Robert Bly (Morning Poems, 1997)

Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.

Robert Bly (Iron John, 1990)

Robert Bly Biography

Born: December 23, 1926

Robert Bly is an American poet, author and activist. He is best known for his book "Iron John". He has won several awards for his works.

Notable Works

Sleepers Joining Hand (1973)
Iron John (1990)
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart (1992)
Morning Poems (1997)