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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
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Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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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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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live.
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I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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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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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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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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