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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
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Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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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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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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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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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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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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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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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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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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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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