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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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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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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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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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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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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.
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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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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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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 wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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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 the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
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Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.
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