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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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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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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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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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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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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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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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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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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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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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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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There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
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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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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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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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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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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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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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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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