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Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.
— Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
linguist, poet, translator, writer
1926 – 2021
Robert Elwood Bly was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men’s movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.
All Quotes by Robert Bly
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It is not our job to remain whole.
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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
— Robert Bly