Coleman Barks

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55

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1937

Active to

2026

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Coleman Barks (b. 1937) is an American poet and world-renowned translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia. Barks is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Berkeley. Barks taught literature at the University of Georgia for three decades. He currently lives in Athens, Georgia, where he translates Rumi and composes poetry of his own. Barks makes frequent international appearances and is well-known throughout the

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5 total works indexed

1. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

   · 1988 · cited 20,875x

2. Electronics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

   · 2012 · cited 15,528x

3. QuPath: Open source software for digital pathology image analysis

   · 2017 · cited 8,315x

4. Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials

   · 2011 · cited 6,858x

5. High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite

   · 2008 · cited 5,798x

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Quotes

• “All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
• “Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?I cannot stop asking.If I could taste one sip of an answer,I could break out of this prison for drunks.I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.”
• “This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it,I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”
• “There is a community of the spirit Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street, and being the noise.”
• “Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.”
• “Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”

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