Robert Bly Quotations

We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five 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.

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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching."

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When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake,
We place our feet where they have never been.
We walk upon the unwalked. But we are uneasy.
Who is down there but our old teachers?
Water that once could take no human weight--
We were students then-- holds up our feet,
And goes on ahead of us for a mile.
Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness.
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Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

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Who is this in me who loves you so?
It must be four fiery men;
They make up a man who loves you.

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You can dance
With only one leg, and see the snowflake falling
With only one eye. Even the blind man
Can see.

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