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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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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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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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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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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 distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.
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By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
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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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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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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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One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
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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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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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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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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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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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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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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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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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