The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.