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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: 98
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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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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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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.
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