<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460211" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rumi's silence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rumi wrote much about silence.<br>Does that seem strange? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poets live with silence: <br>the silence before the poem; <br>the silence whence the poem comes; .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the silence in between the words, as you<br>drink the words, watch them glide through your mind, <br>feel them slide down your throat<br>towards your heart; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the silence which you share with the poet<br>when the poem ends, sitting side by side, <br>feeling one another being one heart; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the silence after the poem, <br>when you are a different person<br>from the person who started reading the poem, <br>think differently, move differently, <br>act differently; know Rumi a little better <br>as a friend; know yourself a little more<br>as a friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rumi was asked, why do you<br>talk, talk, talk, so much<br>about silence? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said, the radiant one inside me<br>has said nothing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that’s the silence which we listen to<br>and hear in Rumi’s heart, <br>here, sitting in the cool shade<br>which the scent of roses seems to love, <br>while the fountain gently plays like a poet<br>with sound and silence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460211" data-title="Rumi's silence de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Rumi wrote much about silence. Does that seem strange? Poets live with silence: the silence before the poem; the silence whence the poem comes; . the silence in between the words, as you drink the words, watch them glide through your mind, f..."></div> </div> </div>

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