Rumi: The beauty of the heart
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Photo: Woman from Turkmenistan;1866
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The beauty of the heart
is the lasting beauty:
its lips give to drink
of the water of life.
Truly it is the water,
that which pours,
and the one who drinks.
All three become one when
your talisman is shattered.
That oneness you can't know
by reasoning.
(Rumi)
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Recommended Reading:
'Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi'
'Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi'
by John Moyne (Translator), Coleman Barks (Translator)
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Description:
Rumi's short poems have many tones and effects: some of them are quick, joyful, and whimsical; some are finely faceted abstract statements; some probe the inward space of patience and longing. Moyne and Barks translated these poems using a free-verse style, connecting these poems with great American spiritual poets such as Walt Whitman and Gary Snyder.
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