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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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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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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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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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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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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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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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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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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And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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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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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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