Robert Bly Quotes
One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
Bly, Robert. Iron John: A Book About Men. Addison-Wesley, 1990.
There were times when the President and cabinet members almost came to blows. In 1824 the Secretary was furious with President Monroe about some customs appointments. He raised his can saying:. The president, not to be outdone picked up a fire poker and hurled some unknown epithet back at Crawford. Apologies were given after this stand-off.
The admiral was lobbying against a proposal supported by Senator John Glenn to require 6 years of military service for armed service academy graduates. Also attributed to John Tower
Morgan was always loyal to his war commander, George Washington, and resented the Jeffersonians bitterly because they criticized Washington’s policies Presidential policies.
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.
