Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.
Robert BlyI have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.
Robert BlyI have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
Robert BlyThe best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing
Robert Bly