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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!'
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Elwood Bly
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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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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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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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 wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
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Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
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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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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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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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