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Poetry keeps longing alive.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Poet
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
Longing
Keeps
Poetry
Alive

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But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
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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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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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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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One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
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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 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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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.
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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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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 older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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