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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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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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And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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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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If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.
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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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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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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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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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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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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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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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