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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.
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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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.
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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 language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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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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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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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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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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