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Coleman Barks on Mother's Day

1937–2026 United States

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4 quotes

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.

The Essential Rumi (1995)

Gamble everything for love,
if you are a true human being.

The Essential Rumi (1995)

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.

The Essential Rumi (1995)

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.

The Essential Rumi (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Coleman Barks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.