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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.
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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 was unfaithful even to Infidelity.
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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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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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The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing
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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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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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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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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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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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