Robert Bly Quote

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again, Drawing up from the great roots.

Robert Bly

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again, Drawing up from the great roots.

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About Robert Bly

Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.