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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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Madison
Minnesota
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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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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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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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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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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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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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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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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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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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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
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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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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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