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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.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down matter, in drudgery, takes it up.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
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As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
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Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
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In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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