“You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises. — Rumi Copy Share Image
This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. — Rumi Copy Share Image
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I… — Rumi Copy Share Image
One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“the more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“A Thirsty Fish I don't get tired of you. Don't grow weary of being compassionate toward me! All this thirst equipment must… — rumi Copy Share Image
“every experience will fill with immediacy. Because I love this, I am never bored. Beauty constantly wells up like the noise of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you… — Rumi Copy Share
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. — Rumi Copy Share
If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But… — Rumi Copy Share
“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.” — Rumi Copy Share
