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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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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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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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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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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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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 beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison they turn to poetry.
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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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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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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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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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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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There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
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