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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.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
Linguist
Poet
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
Moving
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Around
Light
Sliding
Body
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Existing
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Moon

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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.
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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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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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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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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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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