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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
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Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
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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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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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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 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’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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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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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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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture that is why suburban children want rap music.
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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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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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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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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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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