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The Fountain Within Yourself

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by Viktoria Vidali on June 7, 2010

in General,Poetry,Weekly Post

Poetry arises out of the unknown and speaks to what we do know. ~ W.S. Merwin

Contemporary American poet W.S. Merwin thus affirms what philosopher-poet Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi penned eight centuries ago in his poem “Two Kinds of Intelligence”:
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Like Every Other Day

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 12, 2010

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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
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Language Of The Inner World

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by Viktoria Vidali on December 21, 2009

in General,Weekly Post

We have this way of talking, and we have another.
Apart from what we wish and what we fear may happen,
We are alive with other life, as clear stones
Take form in the mountain.
~ Rumi
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