Robert Bly Quotes

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.

Actually, if you ask my really close friends, they would say that 'Honeymoon' is more me than anything else I've written.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

When I started acting in my twenties, a director on the set of an action film shouted, 'Just do it like your dad would.' I couldn't. I can only do things as I'd do them.

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.