Robert Bly Quotes
I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
Citations
Bly, Robert. "Shining Fish." Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems, HarperCollins, 1999.
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Robert Elwood Bly is 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. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.