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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that 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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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
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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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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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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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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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