Says Rumi's translator: Love is the connection with spirit, and one way it flows is through form. That's the state of rapture Rumi praises, the joy of being inside an intersection with the divine, which is what this world is.
"Truly being here is glorious," says Rilke in the Seventh Duino Elegy, and in the Ninth,"
Isn't it the secret intent
of this taciturn earth, when it forces lovers together,
that inside their boundless emotion all things may
shudder with joy?
This resonant trembling of the earth with lovers, if the suberabundance of being...
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