What did Robert Bly mean by: We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again. - Robert Bly Poet · USA Copy
+ It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Bly, Calamity, Human, Obsession, 0 - Robert Bly Poet · USA
+ A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Bly, 0 - Robert Bly Poet · USA
+ The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Bly, Light, Night, 0 - Robert Bly Poet · USA
+ … where a man’s wound is, that is where his genius will be. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Bly, Genius, Wounds, 0 - Robert Bly Poet · USA
+ I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Bly, Proud, Relaxation, Tenderness, 0 - Robert Bly Poet · USA
+ If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Bly, Love, Mom, 0 - Robert Bly Poet · USA
+ In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Bly, Adults, Lost, Sibling, 0 - Robert Bly Poet · USA
+ Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Bly, Pain, 0 - Robert Bly Poet · USA
All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. Explain - Franz Kafka Writer · Czechia
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
Man loves company – even if it is only that of a small burning candle. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. - Waylon Jennings Singer-songwriter · USA
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. Explain - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA