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Robert Bly
American
Poet
About the author
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
Robert Bly,
American
Poet
#Time
#Right
#Life
#Work
#Man
#School
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly,
American
Poet
#Being
#Calamity
#Obsessions
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
Robert Bly,
American
Poet
#Teaching
#Children
#Day
#Home
#Father
#Temperament
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
Robert Bly,
American
Poet
#Love
#Beginning
#Horror