Poet Robert Bly on The Great Persian Poets – Hafez and Rumi – Interviewed by Bill Moyers
“Rumi and Hafez have been the guiding light, Rumi especially, of American poetry for the last five or ten years…
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“Rumi and Hafez have been the guiding light, Rumi especially, of American poetry for the last five or ten years…
There has been a lot of talk lately surrounding a possible movie which will tell the life story of 13th century Turkish-Persian mystic Rumi.
Considered one of the most important Islamic scholars, poet and spiritual masters, Rumi, or Muhammad, lived, taught and wrote becoming a well remembered mystic.
Rumi is one of the great spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mawlawi Sufi order,
Love will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet. ~ Rumi
Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is. ~ Rumi. A collection of Rumi’s writings about love are included here.
“RUMI: Poet of the Heart,” is an award-winning 60 minute film that portrays a lively and provocative exploration of the genius and timeliness of Rumi’s emergence in the west.
A musical interpretation of some of Rumi’s poetry.
A poem about love from Rumi.
A Sufi poem by Rumi written elegantly to inspire and to go beyond our limitations towards the Divine.