Author: Robert Bly

Cites

• Jacob Boehme (2)
  • IN: Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962) Poems, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are all asleep in the outward man
    FROM: The Confessions of Jacob Boehme, (1920), Religious Text, Germany
  • IN: The Light Around the Body (1967) Poems, American
    EPIGRAPH: For according to the outward man, we are in this world, and according to the inward man, we are in the inward world... Since then we are generated out of both worlds, we speak in two languages, and we must be understood also by two languages
    FROM: The Threefold Life of Man, (1620), Book, Germany

Cited by

• Isabel Allende (1)
  • IN: Paula (1994) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, The trees that are broken And start again, drawing up from the great roots.
    FROM: A Home in Dark Grass, (1987), Poem, US