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Classic Rumi in excellent translation, May 25, 2000
This review is from: Look! This Is Love (Shambhala Centaur Editions) (Paperback)
Annemarie Schimmel is an internationally recognized expert on Sufism in general and Rumi in particular. In this selection of poems of Rumi, she also shows herself to be a woman of excellent poetic sense in English.
Especially enjoyable in this small volume are poems that reflect the common origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: "... You be an ocean and throw out the boat! / You be a world and throw away the world! .............
If you enjoy Sufi poetry or Rumi, consider this book a must.
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TO LOVE, May 23, 2001
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This review is from: Look! This Is Love (Shambhala Centaur Editions) (Paperback)
WHEN I FIRT SAW I WAS AFRAID TO TALK TO YOU , WHEN I TALKED TO YOU I WAS AFRAID TO LIKE YOU , WHEN I LIKED I WAS AFRAID TO LOVE YOU , NOW THAT I LOVE YOU I'M AFRAID TO LOSE YOU..
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