Robert Bly Quotes

Robert Bly — American Poet born on December 23, 1926,

Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His most commercially successful book to date was Iron John: A Book About Men, a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement, which spent 62 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body... (wikipedia)

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

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

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.

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