What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.
Coleman Barks[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.
Coleman BarksI had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”
Coleman Barks