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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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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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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
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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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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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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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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I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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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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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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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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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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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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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 presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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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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