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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! – Rumi

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Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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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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Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible. – Rumi

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If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring. – Rumi

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