8 Best nonfiction books like The Essential Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Coleman Barks

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The Essential Rumi

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumiincludes a new introduction by Coleman Barks…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Essential Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Coleman Barks , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. 100 Selected Poems

By: E.E. Cummings

4.29

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

E.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of the 20th century, and this volume, firs… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"tomorrow is our permanent address"

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

"for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine"

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

"love’s to giving as to keeping’s give; as yes is to if,love is to yes"

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

"Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves."

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

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2. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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3. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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4. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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5. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • philosophy
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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6. The Complete Poetry and Prose

By: Harold Bloom , William Blake , David V. Erdman

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • philosophy
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7. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

By: W.B. Yeats , Richard J. Finneran

4.15

Format: 333 pages,

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsincludes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in hi… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics

8. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

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  • classics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • spirituality
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9. Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self

By: Robert Waggoner

3.63

Format: None pages,

Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Selfis the account of an extraordinarily talented lucid dreame… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

10. The Gift

By: Hafez , Daniel Ladinsky

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • islam
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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11. The Essential Rumi

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumiincludes a new introduction by Coleman Barks… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • islam
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

12. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

By: Pablo Neruda , Ilan Stavans

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twenti… read more

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13. The Love Poems of Rumi

By: Deepak Chopra , Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , None

4.12

Format: 440 pages,

Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi… read more

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14. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more

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15. Love & Misadventure

By: Lang Leav

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Awarded a coveted Churchill Fellowship, … read more

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16. The Poetry of Robert Frost

By: Robert Frost , Edward Connery Lathem

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the ent… read more

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17. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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18. The Collected Poems

By: Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

"By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. T… read more

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19. The Complete Stories and Poems

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.72

Format: 294 pages,

The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and… read more

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20. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver

4.58

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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21. The Hero's Adventure: Power of Myth 1

By: Joseph Campbell

4.37

Format: 60 pages, audio cassette

Long before medieval knights charged off to slay dragons, tales of heroic adventures were an integr… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
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12 best-selling classics books like The Essential Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Coleman Barks

Transform Your Habits

100 Selected Poems

E.E. Cummings

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Transform Your Habits

A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Mary Oliver

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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5 Best classics books like The Gift by Hafez, Daniel Ladinsky

Transform Your Habits

Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (Compass)

Daniel Ladinsky

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Faces of Love

Hafez , Dick Davis , Jahan Malek Khatun , None

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Faust, Part Two

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , None

4.21

The Gift

Hafez , Daniel Ladinsky

3.96

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