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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
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
Abundant
Fertile
Library
Poetry
Almost
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Excitable
Person
Rumi
Astounding

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