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What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
Linguist
Poet
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Relation
Grief
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Society

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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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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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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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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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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I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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