Robert Bly

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

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.

We make the path by walking.

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

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being and a man needs to know this.

We are bees then our honey is language.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

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