Mystical Poems of Rumi - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226731629ISBN-10:226731626UPC:9780226731629Book Category:Religion, PoetryBook Subcategory:Islam, Middle Eastern, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:SufiSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCZMFCBCMZ
Mystical Poems of Rumi
My verse resembles the bread of Egypt-night passes over it, and you cannot eat it any more.
Devour it the moment it is fresh, before the dust settles upon it.
Its place is the warm climate of the heart; in this world it dies of cold.
Like a fish it quivered for an instant on dry land, another moment and you see it is cold.
Even if you eat it imagining it is fresh, it is necessary to conjure up...
Devour it the moment it is fresh, before the dust settles upon it.
Its place is the warm climate of the heart; in this world it dies of cold.
Like a fish it quivered for an instant on dry land, another moment and you see it is cold.
Even if you eat it imagining it is fresh, it is necessary to conjure up...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226731629ISBN-10:226731626UPC:9780226731629Book Category:Religion, PoetryBook Subcategory:Islam, Middle Eastern, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:SufiSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCZMFCBCMZ
Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), legendary Persian Muslim poet, theologian, and mystic, wrote more than three thousand lyrics and odes. A. J. Arberry (1905-69) was professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Ehsan Yarshater is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies and director of the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University.
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