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This is a lovely book of poems.

This is difficult.
I love Rumi, such that fifteen years ago I began to teach myself to read Persian. In the end I made an audio-recording/CD of my translations. I sold two copies. Two. Cue another major depression. I've avoided Rumi since then. I actually prefer Coleman Barks' other book, "The Essential Rumi", to this one, which has a shorter attention span and, while good, comes across at times as a thematic collection of quotable sound-bites.

what was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest...

fun and beautiful poetry

Many of the poems' style and significance escape me; however as with any book, you take away from it what "speaks" to you. Here are are three favorites:

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

Love is the religion; the universe is the book.

Some nights stay up until dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.