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

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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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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down matter, in drudgery, takes it up.
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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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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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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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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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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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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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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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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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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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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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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.
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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live.
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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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