Robert Bly Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Early Morning in Your RoomIt's morning. The brown scoops of coffee, the wasp-likeCoffee grinder, the neighbors still asleep.The gray light as you pour gleaming water--It seems you've traveled years to get here.Finally you deserve a house. If not deserveIt, have it; no one can get you out. MiseryHad its way, poverty, no money at least.Or maybe it was confusion. But that's over.Now you have a room. Those lighthearted books:The Anatomy of Melancholy, Kafka's Letter to his Father, are all here. You can danceWith only one leg, and see the snowflake fallingWith only one eye. Even the blind manCan see. That's what they say. If you hadA sad childhood, so what? When Robert BurtonSaid he was melancholy, he meant he was home. Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950--2013

2. I have daughters and I have sons.When one of them lays a handOn my shoulder, shining fishTurn suddenly in the deep sea.

3. It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again,Drawing up from the great roots.

4. Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.