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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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Madison
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Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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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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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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I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
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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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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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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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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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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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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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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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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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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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One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.
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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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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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