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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: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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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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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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