Robert Bly Quotes

Art is the highest form of hope.

Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

Music inspires me.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

All art is erotic.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.