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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.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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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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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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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 want nothing from You but to see You.
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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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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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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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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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One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture that is why suburban children want rap music.
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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
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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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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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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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