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It seems to make people happy to attribute pithy, compassionate, vaguely new-agey sentiments to prestigious writers. Another example that comes to mind is the 1
by croissants 6y ago
It seems to make people happy to attribute pithy, compassionate, vaguely new-agey sentiments to prestigious writers. Another example that comes to mind is the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, whose works have been...reimagined in the last few decades [1] into little things you can superimpose on a photo of a beach sunset.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Barks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Barks
- prox 6y agoColeman Barks at least has a sense of rhyme, but when it comes to the original Rumi, it is indeed very different. It’s hard to find good (accurate) Rumi translations,