1. Home »
  2. Persian Poets »
  3. Rumi

Any Lifetime

Rumi

Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.
The water that pollutes you is poison;
The poison that purifies you is water.




Quotes of the Day

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
• Rodney Dangerfield


Poems of the Day
  • Leslie Contreras Schwartz
    Cathedral
    by Leslie Contreras Schwartz
    Enter under the ribbed vaulting, holding up the pointed arch girded by rigid piers and those brave half-fallen buttresses. I’m not there. No Gothic cathedral in my heart. Inside, not in the nave, ...