Robert Bly Quote

What has death and a thick body dances before what has no thick body and no death. The trumpet says: I am you. The spiritual master arrives and bows down to the beginning student. Try to live to see this!

Robert Bly

What has death and a thick body dances before what has no thick body and no death. The trumpet says: I am you. The spiritual master arrives and bows down to the beginning student. Try to live to see this!

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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.