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I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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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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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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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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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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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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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.
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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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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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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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We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.
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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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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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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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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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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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