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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.

Robert Bly

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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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If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'
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By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
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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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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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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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We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.
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There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
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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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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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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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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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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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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