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“To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.” — Robert Bly

“I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.” — Robert Bly

“Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.” — Robert Bly

“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

I love you with what in me is unfinished. I love you with what in me is still changing. – Robert Bly

“Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.” — Robert Bly

“Grief is the doorway to a man’s feelings.” — Robert Bly

“A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.” — Robert Bly

“If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.” — Robert Bly

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. – Robert Bly

“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.” — Robert Bly

He gave me a book and said he was going to give me a quiz on the first 24 pages. – Robert Bly

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

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

In the process of writing, your energy gradually begins appearing in every line; eventually lines don’t resemble anyone else’s because they are all composed of your energy. – Robert Bly

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

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. – Robert Bly

The sea and the honeycomb a book of tiny poems edited by Robert Bly

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

“It doesn’t matter what happens to you. What matters is, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to complain and shrink or are you going to step into your greatness?” — Robert Tew