Robert Bly
Robert Bly
Robert Blyis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 December 1926
CityLac Qui Parle County, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Bly quotes about
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.