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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Elwood Bly
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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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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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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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I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket.
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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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I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.
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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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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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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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If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.
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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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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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The door to the soul is unlocked you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.
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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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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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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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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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