When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
About Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Blywas an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men’s movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men’s movement.
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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
American poet, author, and activist (1926-2021)
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.
American poet, author, and activist (1926-2021)
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
American poet, author, and activist (1926-2021)
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
American poet, author, and activist (1926-2021)