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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.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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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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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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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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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.
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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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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
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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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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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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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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