10 Quotes by Robert Bly about men

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    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.

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    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.

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    One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

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    Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.

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

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    And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

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    If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.

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    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.

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