Rumi: Poet of the Heart
1998 · 58 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 38 VOTES · DIR. Haydn Reiss
Overview
In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died, the grieving Rumi gripped a pole in his garden, and turning round it, began reciting imagistic poetry about inner life and love of God. After Rumi's death, his son founded the Mevlevi Sufi order, the whirling dervishes. Lovers of Rumi's poems comment on their power and meaning, including religious historian Huston Smith, writer Simone Fattal, poet Robery Bly, and Coleman Barks, who reworks literal translations of Rumi into poetic English. Musicians accompany Barks and Bly as they recite their versions of several of Rumi's ecstatic poems.
Dialogue Timeline — 592 lines
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00:00:23 [Debra Winger] In the town of Konya, in central Turkey...
00:03:00 the essential truths of Sufism exist in all religions.
00:04:49 He was an intense fierce mountain meditator.
00:06:31 This is the poem "I'm Not Saying This Right"
00:08:10 The two oceans met each other.
00:10:46 There was a lot of jealousy among Rumi's students, over this.
00:12:41 He would say that feeling, is a presence.
00:16:39 There was an agony of wishing in my heart.
00:18:34 when you translate Neruda. And then Neruda's a contemporary and so...
00:20:32 MY LAMENT HATH CAUSED MAN AND WOMAN TO MOAN."
00:22:35 and the spirit of the thing comes to life again...
00:24:21 Somebody who has knowledge of the poetry...
00:26:21 of the river bed god.
00:28:50 "Do you love me or yourself more?"
00:31:29 "And what amazing sights he offers to the descending sheep."
00:33:51 "A secret turning in us makes the universe turn."
00:35:46 from the ability to love and have compassion.
00:39:24 You love it. You see the world in other ways.
00:42:15 "even the tall cypress tree."
00:44:18 these little poems, on that thin adding machine roll.
00:46:09 If you want to take care of inner cities...
00:48:02 It may be it's because he's telling a truth, that we are ready to hear.
00:50:11 at the core of all religions.
00:52:42 "When grapes turn to wine they're wanting this."