
Frequently quoted on social media, but was not written by Rumi in Persian.
Misattributed
Frequently quoted on social media, but was not written by Rumi in Persian.
Misattributed
“My biggest fear will be the rescue of me.”
Lyrics, Morning View (2001)
“As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.”
Quoting a Mexican proverb in "Night and Day" in Frontiers (1990)
Source: The Politics of Experience (1967), Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence
Context: I see you, and you see me. I experience you, and you experience me. I see your behaviour. You see my behaviour. But I do not and never have and never will see your experience of me. Just as you cannot "see" my experience of you. My experience of you is not "inside" me. It is simply you, as I experience you. And I do not experience you as inside me. Similarly, I take it that you do not experience me as inside you.
"My experience of you" is just another form of words for "you-as-l-experience-you", and "your experience of me" equals "me-as-you-experience-me". Your experience of me is not inside you and my experience of you is not inside me, but your experience of me is invisible to me and my experience of you is invisible to you.
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.”
On ascending the platform to his execution, as quoted in History of England (1856-1870) by James Anthony Froude
“As a writer, I see myself more as a communicator. For me, writing is the best part of my career.”
"Billboard Magazine" (11 October 2003)
2007, 2008
Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)