To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life-energy of the soul. – Rumi Category: Rumi
This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober. – Rumi Category: Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. – Rumi Category: Rumi
Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, Here I am! – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks Category: Rumi
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman Category: Life
Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says, “I am coming.” – Virgil, Minor Poems, Copa Category: Carpe Diem
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens Category: Nature
