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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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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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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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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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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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Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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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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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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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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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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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If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down matter, in drudgery, takes it up.
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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
Robert Bly
There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
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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.
Robert Bly
What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.
Robert Bly
If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.
Robert Bly
