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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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Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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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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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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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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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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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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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison they turn to poetry.
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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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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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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I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
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We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.
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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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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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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.
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All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.
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