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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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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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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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One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
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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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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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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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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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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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