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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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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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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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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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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture that is why suburban children want rap music.
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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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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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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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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 want nothing from You but to see You.
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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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