"I 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.”"

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Source : "Love’s Confusing Joy: Coleman Barks on Poet Jelaluddin Rumi". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 16, 1995.

Coleman Barks

#Needs Quotes #Cages Quotes

“He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.”
“True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.”
“I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.”
“Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in”
“...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.”
“The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.”

Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.153, Cornell University Press
“I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.”
“Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that you feel as though you are enmeshed in Coley's brain: thinking her thoughts, feeling her confusion, anger, and, in the end, pain. I just don't think it's possible to read this book and not identify with Coley in some way.”

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