Today is the birthday of Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926), poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. His best known work is Iron John: A Book About Men."The candle is not lit to give light, but to testify to the night."
- Robert Bly
“Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.”
- Robert Bly
"Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry."
- Robert Bly
"It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions."
- Robert Bly
"Wherever there is water there is someone drowning."
- Robert Bly
"It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down."
- Robert Bly
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