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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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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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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live.
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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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But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
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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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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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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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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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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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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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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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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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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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