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Robert Bly Inspirational Quotes (73)

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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.
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One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture that is why suburban children want rap music.
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In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.
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I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.
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Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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