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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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Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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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.
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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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I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.
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In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.
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Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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