Coleman Barks

Rumi: The Book of Love

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The Sufi mystic and poet Jalaluddin Rumi is most beloved for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love in all its forms—erotic, platonic, divine—and Coleman Barks presents the best of them in this delightful and inspiring collection. Rendered with freshness, intensity, and beauty as Barks alone can do, these startling and rich poems range from the “wholeness” one experiences with a true lover, to the grief of a lover's loss, and all the states in between: from the madness of sudden love to the shifting of a romance to deep friendship to the immersion in divine love. Rumi, the ultimate poet of love, explores all “the magnificent regions of the heart,” and he opens you to the lover within. Coleman Barks has made this medieval, Persian-born (present-day Afghanistan) poetic and spiritual genius the most popular poet in America today. This seductive volume reveals Rumi's charms and depths more than any other.
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135 printed pages
Publication year
2009
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Quotes

  • Dina Kaidirhas quoted7 years ago
    Love is not love that doesn’t love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars.
  • Deehas quoted3 years ago
    “I did not want to live what was not life. Living is so dear.”
  • Deehas quoted3 years ago
    It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come,

    and yet again, come.

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