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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'
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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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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
Robert Bly
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
Robert Bly
It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
Robert Bly
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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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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I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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The door to the soul is unlocked you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.
Robert Bly
To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.
Robert Bly
The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.
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