To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life-energy of the soul. – Rumi

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. – Rumi

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. – Rumi

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