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I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.
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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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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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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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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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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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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And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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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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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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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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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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