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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Rumi

Born: September 30, 1207
Died: December 17, 1273 (aged 66)
Bio: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, MawlānāMawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
Known for:
- Masnavi
- Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
- Fihi Ma Fihi
- The Essential Rumi
- The Rumi Collection
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