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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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Men
Pissing
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.
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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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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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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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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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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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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 older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.
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