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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
Tea
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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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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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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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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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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 best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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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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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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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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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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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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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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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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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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