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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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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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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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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 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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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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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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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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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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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