Poet Rumi Quotes

#1. The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want.

Elizabeth Lesser

#2. The poet Rumi said that "the price of kissing is your life." He was right, and he was offering us a carrot. What he did not mention is the stick: that the price of not kissing is your miserable unkissed life.

Anne Benvenuti

#3. The poet Rumi says: How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we never know ourselves, never are airborne.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#5. The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

Tara Brach

#6. He remembers a verse from the mystic poet, Rumi, Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

J.J. Brown

#7. There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

Arianna Huffington

#8. I see the life with your sight,
O" the love; you're my light.

Debasish Mridha

#9. If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is really remarkable.

Huston Smith

#10. Sometimes ... it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you - and you realize you've grown up.

Jacqueline Woodson

#11. He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

Samuel Johnson

#12. I love her."
"She's dead."
"That doesn't mean to me what it does to other people.

Kendare Blake

#13. I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.

Mary Oliver

#14. Do you see, my dear? The proverbs are at play. 'I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.'" I

Ruta Sepetys

#15. I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

Rumi

#16. Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

Rumi

#17. I lost everything I had, but in the process I found myself." - Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet and mystic.

Rahul Deokar

#18. My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

Gary Cherone