This famous quote by the Persian poet and mystic Rumi speaks about an ego-driven world where people try changing the world ...
Some quotes seem to stay alive long after the people who wrote them are gone. They travel across countries, languages and ...
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Philip Glass and the Poets on Sunday, May 17, at 7 p.m. at Campbell Hall. In this episode of ...
Aaron Poochigian is an American poet, translator, and classicist born in 1973. He studied at Moorhead State University and ...
This excerpt from Shivya Nath's ‘Rootless and Restless’ describes the circuitous route to the author’s trip to Iran in 2019 ...
On the one hand lies wine, on the other lies piety; with thy hand in mine. ignore what society. wants you to choose, and ...
Rumi was born in 1207 in Balkh, now in Afghanistan. (TOI) Timeless quotations frequently surpass the period in which they were first expressed. They move through generations, societies, and word of ...
Kris Kristofferson told her he was a poet when they co-starred in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” Her new book tells the story of her life in poetry.
One of the most widely read poets in the Western world hails from outside of it: Rumi, a Muslim poet who was born in present-day Tajikistan, and wrote in the 1200s AD. His couplets about love and the ...
Quote of the day: The deep meaningful poetry by Sufi saint Rumi is showered by love and appreciation from across the globe. His words of wisdom on life, men, women and love come in beautiful form, ...
As a 20-year old art student in London, playwright Lady Mohini Noon Kent was introduced to the works of 13th century Sufi poet-philosopher Jalal-ud-din Rumi by her Persian roommate. Decades later, she ...