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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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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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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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A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
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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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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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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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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 sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'
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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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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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