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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
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Rumi
Astounding
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The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing
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Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.
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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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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
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Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
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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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In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
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If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.
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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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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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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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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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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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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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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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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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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