Robert Bly Quotes

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.

From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

I want to go to there.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.

And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?

Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.

Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.