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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.
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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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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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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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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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And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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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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I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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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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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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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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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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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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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.
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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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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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We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'
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