Thursday 10 January 2013

Listen

 
‘Listen to presences inside poem,
Let them take you where you will.

Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises.’


Rumi (1207 – 1273)


Rumi: the essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A.J. Arberry & Reynold Nicholson, 1999. London: Penguin Books, p.99