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Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. – Rumi

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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that light becomes this art. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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This is how I would die into the love I have for you: as pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight. – Rumi

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Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses. – Rumi

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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. – Robert Bly

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