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“Exquisite..”
“In reading Benny Thomas’ quatrains I was struck by the presence of the nectar of grace in his poetry,whose scent through a process of spiritual alchemy permeates the mystical presence in the Rubāiyyāt. As Thomas puts it “the soul of the Persian astronomer-poet still speaks to us. So does Edward Fitzgerald…” Mehdi Aminrazavi the author of The Wine of Wisdom: the Life, Poetry & Philosophy of Omar Khayyam
Professor of Philosophy and Religion
University of Mary Washington
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O Muse bless this verse half express’d
By soul and rounded off by life:
You who know soul’s language
Spoken where senses are of no use
And no loom can decipher dreams,
Luminous be your grace, Oh accept my plea:
Unless you touch words with pen cut
From the reeds grown in sunless clime
The poet trots the words and none the wiser.
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