We live in a poetically underdeveloped nation. Men blame their own lives for a deficiency in the culture. For, without the fanciful delicacy and the powerful truths that poems convey, emotions and imagination flatten out. There's a lack of spirit, of vision. The loss in the heart appears as a loss of heart to take up the great cultural challenges that are part of every man's citizenship.
Robert Bly
(1926 - )
Source: The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poetry Anthology, A, Page: xix
