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Love is the Water of Life

Rumi

Everything other than love for the most beautiful God
though it be sugar- eating.
What is agony of the spirit?
To advance toward death without seizing
hold of the Water of Life.




Quotes of the Day

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Poems of the Day
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    Why I Am Not A Painter
    by Frank O'Hara
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