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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
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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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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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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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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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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
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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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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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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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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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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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