In some languages of the Middle East the word for rain and the word for grace are the same. These quatrains are evidence of the invisible grace falling on our earth a grace received by the mature spirit of master poet, Jelaluddin Rumi.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Persian
Original Language: Persian
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The Most Beautiful Poetry on the Planet,
By qaca66a@prodigy.com (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi (Paperback)
If I were stuck on that proverbial desert island with just one book, this would be it. I've read these graceful four line poems over and over, and every time gain fresh insight. The genius of this work is that it can be read on so many different levels--give it to a couple newly in love and they can read it to each other as a book of love poems. Give it to a serious seeker of God and they will understand the love and beloved of the poems to be the relationship between Rumi and God, and the ecstasy of real communion with God...either way, this poems are beautiful and infinite. I brought this book to Afghanistan (where Rumi was born) and found the love of this poet (who they know as Bahlki) to be a bond, and we translated many poems back and forth...there are many more. BUY this book! And buy five copies to give to friends. Even people who think they don't like or read poetry end up loving this book, especially if they are on the path to God.
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Quatrains About Poetry and Love - A Redundancy.,
By Hortensia Anderson "Hortensia Anderson" (nyc, ny, usa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi (Paperback)
How beautiful the translations:
Night comes so people can sleep like fish in black water. Then day. How beautiful the poetry: I have no name for what circles so perfectly. Keep this book close to you for those thin, lonely hours so that you can understand - We are the night ocean filled with glints of light...
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Rumi's Quatrains Are Precious - To The Point and Lovely,
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I have had this book for several years, and just pulled it off my shelf to enjoy again. Rumi's quatrains are beautiful and some of my favorite of his work, because they get straight to the heart of the matter, almost in the way a haiku does. The editors state in the introduction that they "tried to connect these poems with a strong American line of free-verse spiritual poetry" and I think they do a brilliant job of it, making these accessible and fluid. If you already love Rumi, don't miss this translation, and if you are new to him, this is a great place to start.
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The one who floods the private sanctuary I've built, who takes away sleep, who drags and throws me under, that presence is the joy I speak. Read the first page New!
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The one who floods the private sanctuary I've built, who takes away sleep, who drags and throws me under, that presence is the joy I speak. Read the first page New!
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- The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Shambhala Classics) by Kabir Helminski in Back Matter
- Open Secret: Versions of Rumi by John Moyne in Back Matter
- Love Is a Stranger: Selected Lyric Poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi by Jelaluddin Rumi in Back Matter
- Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi by W.M. Thackston Jr. in Back Matter
- This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi by Jelaluddin Rumi in Back Matter
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- The Heartcore Alternative: Reinterpreting Our Relationships to Each Other and Earth in a Global Age by Nancy C. Jacques in Front Matter
- One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism by Joseph Goldstein on page 214
- One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism by Joseph Goldstein in Back Matter
- Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual optimism by Joan Borysenko in Back Matter
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