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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
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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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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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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A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
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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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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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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 part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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