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One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

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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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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
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Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'
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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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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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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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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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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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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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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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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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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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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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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