Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

Inside of us, there’s a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water. – Rumi

Let yourself become living poetry. – Rumi

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one. – Rumi