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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
Linguist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
Library
Poetry
Almost
Persons
Excitable
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Rumi
Astounding
Abundant
Fertile

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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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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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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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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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