Fertile Quote by Robert Bly

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

— Aberjhani

If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in…

— Huston Smith

I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from…

— Coleman Barks

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river of joy within you. "Rumi”

— Rumi

“the more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is…

— Rumi

“Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when…

— Aberjhani

“Rumi speaks often of the power of silence to take us to what we are looking for. In one poem he says: We search…

— Matthew Fox

.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry…

— Andrew Harvey

What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that…

— Coleman Barks

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral...

— Coleman Barks

“The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at the empty…

— Gregory Boyle