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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Elwood Bly
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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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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I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.
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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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The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing
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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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Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison they turn to poetry.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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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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What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.
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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 door to the soul is unlocked you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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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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