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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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Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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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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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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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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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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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 older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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