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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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All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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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 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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One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture that is why suburban children want rap music.
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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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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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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 society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
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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 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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A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist 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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