In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
Robert BlyThe ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.
Robert BlyMyth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.
Robert BlyTo be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.
Robert BlyWhen anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
Robert Bly