I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could b…

Rumi
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I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. ✨ Rumi (2015). Selected Poems, p.29, Penguin UK
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