‘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
