I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
Robert BlyI have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.
Robert BlyRumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
Robert BlyWhat does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble.
Robert Bly