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Article: Poetry of universal love: the journey of the poet Rumi.(Jalal al-Din Rumi)(BOOK WORLD)(Biography)
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- The World and I
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- April 1, 2009
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'Go and wash off all hatred from your chest
Seven times with water.
Then you can become our companion
Drinking from the wine of love.
--Rumi'
Poetry has become less and less present in our daily life and modern society. Even the word poetry is sometimes (mis)used to imply not-serious ideas or irrelevant sayings. This is in sharp contrast to the significance of poetry in historical cultures where poetry had a practical role: Parents read poems to their children; students memorized poems in schools, people recited poems as proverbs, and eminent poets were icons of wisdom and refined soul. Against this backdrop of the ...
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... ... Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- This fall Mevlana Jalalludin Rumi (http://www.rumireturning.com/), known to the West simply as Rumi, is celebrating his 800th birthday. Rumi festivals are planned in hundreds of far-flung cities, including ...
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