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The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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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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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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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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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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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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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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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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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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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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Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.
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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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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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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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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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I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
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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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