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Sara Teasdale, born Sara Trevor Teasdale, aka Sara Teasdale Filsinger
Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in a storm of mirth; Until my heart is quenched at length And I have left the land of men, Oh, let me love with all my strength Careless if I am loved again.
'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead? She 'as ships on the foam--she 'as millions at 'ome, An' she pays us poor beggars in red.
Will |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.
Tears |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that he himself has conceived good ideas or done good deeds. If everything were as it seemed, the Prophet would not have cried out with such illuminated and illuminating perspicacity, Show me things as they are! You make things appear beautiful when in reality they are ugly; You make things appear ugly when in reality they are beautiful. Show us therefore each thing as it is lest we fall into a snare and be ever errant.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Into this new love, die your way begins on the other side become the sky take an axe to the prison wall, escape walk out like someone suddenly born into color do it now
Land |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Listen to the story told by the reed, of being separated. Since I was cut from the reed-bed, I have made this crying sound. Anyone apart from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a source longs to go back. At any gathering I am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving, a friend to each, but few will hear the secrets hidden within the notes. No ears for that. Body flowing out of spirit, spirit up from body: no concealing that mixing. But it's not given us to see the soul. The reed flute is fire, not wind. Be that empty. Hear the love-fire tangled in the reed notes, as bewilderment melts into wine. The reed is a friend to all who want the fabric torn and drawn away. The reed is hurt and salve combining. Intimacy and longing for intimacy, one song. A disastrous surrender, and a fine love, together.
Light | Little | Means | Soul | Space | Spirit | Wants | Will | Old |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not.
Memory |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring-water or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
Will |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon So powerful I fell to the ground Your love has made me sure I am ready to forsake this worldly life and surrender to the magnificence of your Being.
All is not gold that glitters. (A person or thing may not be as good,valuable,etc., as he or it first appears; appearances can be deceptive)
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Enough |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.