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Poet and former English professor at Georgia who, working from John Moyne's literal translations, rendered Rumi into the colloquial American English that made the thirteenth-century Sufi poet the best-selling poet in the United States by the 1990s.
Krista Tippett
Host of On Being — the Peabody-winning radio show and podcast where the biggest questions (what it means to be human, how we live together, what matters in the end) are asked of poets, scientists, and spiritual teachers. Nobody listens more carefully in contemporary American media.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. — William Wordsworth — Lyrical Ballads