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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.
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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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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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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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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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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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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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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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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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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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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 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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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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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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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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