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I want nothing from You but to see You.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
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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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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.
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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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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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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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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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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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One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.
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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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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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Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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