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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
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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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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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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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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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I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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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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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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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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What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.
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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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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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