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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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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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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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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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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.
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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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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
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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 want nothing from You but to see You.
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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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We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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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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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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