Robert Bly

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Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.

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Books by Robert Bly

Average rating: 4.01 · 4,540 ratings · 518 reviews · 126 distinct works

	Iron John: A Book About Men 3.65 avg rating — 991 ratings — published 1984 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology by Robert Bly (Editor), James Hillman (Editor), Michael Meade (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Little Book on the Human Shadow 4.12 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems by Robert Bly, James Arlington Wright (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Morning Poems 3.85 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems 4.23 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Leaping Poetry: An Idea With Poems and Translations 4.14 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	My rating:
	News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness by Robert Bly, B. Ras (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir 4.28 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy 4.19 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
I want to tie the two arms together,
And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.”
― Robert Bly, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems

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“It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.”
― Robert Bly, My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems

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“So I am proud only of those days that we pass in undivided tenderness.”
― Robert Bly

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