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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Tea
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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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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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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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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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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
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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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I want nothing from You but to see You.
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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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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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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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.
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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 wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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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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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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