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1. Publishing Offers, Bookings, Interview Requests & General Queries
2. Rumi Quotes
3. The Popular 'Guest House' Poem
4. Unauthorized Commercial Gain of Rights-Protected Content is Prohibited by Law
5. Copyright Request Guidelines
6. Rumi Translations into Other Languages
7. German Language Rights are Available
8. For Queries on the Original Persian of Rumi
9. Partner With Us
10. Special Exceptions and Conditions for Quoting Rumi and Valentino St. Germain's (Shahram Shiva) on Social Media
11. Your Body is a Guest House Poem on YouTube
12. Join the Lovers of Rumi and Valentino St. Germain's Events & News Email List
13. Mission
14. We Support Authentic Rumi Interpretations

1. Publishing Offers, Bookings, Interview Requests & General Queries
For publishing offers, interview requests and bookings for Valentino St. Germain, who publishes under the pseudonym (a yogic title) of Shah Ram Shiva, or any general query please e-mail .

NOTE: We have been offering rights to Rumi poems and quotes in English and other languages, and to the works of Valentino St. Germain (Shah Ram Shiva), since 1992. For all copyright requests, including the use of copyrighted materials on Social Media, please scroll down for request guidelines. We receive requests on daily basis and try to get to them promptly. We are based in California.

2. Rumi Quotes
We're honored to host the world's largest and most complete selection of the most powerful and popular Rumi quotes. Our unique quotes selection is currently at over 250. Please visit the Rumi Poetry section on our site to view. If you are looking for Rumi quotes for film, TV, streaming, apps, books, music and other endeavors, please scroll down to 5. Copyright Request Guidelines below and follow instructions for contact. Thank you.

We are extremely honored to announce the release of the ultimate selection of Rumi's powerful and inspiring quotes. We have been working on this amazing selection for a lifetime. The Essential Rumi Quotes, offers the reader a collection of the most powerful, passionate, endearing, and inspiring quotes of Rumi, selected from our decades-long love affair with Rumi’s work.Click on book image to go to Amazon.

3. The Popular 'Guest House' Poem
Valentino St. Germain's (as Shahram Shiva) latest book, Rumi: The Beloved is You - My Favorite Collection of Deeply Passionate, Whimsical, Spiritual and Profound Poems and Quotes, includes a beautiful and powerful rendition of the popular Rumi poem, Your Body is a Guest House or simply Guest House, that's much closer to the thoughts and intentions of Rumi. Fans of Rumi, readers and publishers alike are preferring Shahram Shiva's interpretation of the poem Guest House. Mr. Shiva is a mystic himself and he speaks the language of Rumi, hence his work is much more representative of Rumi's original message and the emotional delivery of his poems. Please scroll down to view updated version of this poem by Valentino St. Germain (Shahram Shiva), adapted directly from the original Persian of Rumi. Rumi: The Beloved is You is available on Amazon.

Your Body is a Guest House

4. Unauthorized Commercial Gain of Rights-Protected Content is Prohibited by Law
Please note that all Rumi Quotes or Poems in English (or other world languages) are rights-protected. It is strictly forbidden to financially benefit from sale or distribution of these texts without acquiring proper rights. You may not sell or distribute copyright protect content and place them on clothing, mugs, calendars and so on without acquiring proper rights. In such cases that the rights may have been given to certain publishers or distributors, those rights are nontransferable. Those seeking rights to protected content, at all times, must contact the source of such rights. Please scroll down to 5. Copyright Request Guidelines below and follow instructions for contact. Thank you.

5. Copyright Request Guidelines
Since Rumi originally composed in Persian, all translations of Rumi's poetry into world languages are copyrighted. We have been offering rights to Rumi poems and quotes in English and other languages since 1992. We advise you to contact us for all requests for quoting Rumi or using any content on Rumi Network website or for contents from Valentino St. Germain's (Shahram Shiva) various books, editorials and music. In some cases there are no fees associated with granting rights, hence we encourage you to ask for permission.

Please provide a brief overview of your project. If it's a new book, please provide the title and the publisher (or self-published) with a very brief description. For other mediums, such as stage, music, film, TV, streaming, apps or video, please provide brief project overview.

Please provide all of the copyrighted text needing the rights. We do not offer blanket or general rights to content, nor do we offer rights by title of articles or poems. Full text of the content that you are requesting the rights for must be provided. For example, if you are seeking rights to a poem of Rumi, please provide the entire text of that poem and not just its title. Please e-mail . For use on Social Media, please see Paragraph 10.

6. Rumi Translations into Other Languages
We are very focused on bringing Rumi's poetry and timeless message to new cultures and languages. Over the years we have introduced Rumi to many non-English speaking countries, such as Germany, Romania, Spanish speaking nations and China, among many others. If you are planning to translate and share Rumi into other world languages please email us for more info. Please e-mail .

7. German Language Rights are Available
If you are an established publisher operating in Germany and would like to add Rumi poetry to your collection, we're pleased to inform you that we have a large selection of Rumi poems in German and we'd like to hear from you. Please e-mail .

8. For Queries on the Original Persian of Rumi
Valentino St. Germain's (Shahram Shiva) aim has always been to provide authentic translations of Rumi's work. For example his most unique and award-winning 1995 book Rending The Veil: Literal and Poetic Translations of Rumi, provides 252 poems of Rumi is 4 versions. 1. Original Persian calligraphy. 2. Transliteration. 3. Word-for-word translation. 4. Literal, or close to the original, English translation. For a large selection of original Persian poems of Rumi with corresponding English treatments please refer to Rending The Veil. Sample pages of this book are available here.

9. Partner With Us
We are now considering potential partnerships for expanding Rumi's presence online in the areas of Rumi quotes on products and in apps. Please get in touch with us with brief detail of your project for more information.

10. Special Exceptions and Conditions for Quoting Rumi and Valentino St. Germain (Shahram Shiva) on Social Media
If you're planning to quote or share on your Social Media channels contents from this site or any of the Rumi poems or Shahram Shiva's various works, only proper source credit is required. For sharing of Rumi poems, please provide this credit: Rumi as translated by Shahram Shiva, visit Rumi.net for more info. For quoting other types of content and written works by Shahram Shiva on your SM, please provide this credit: Written by Shahram Shiva, visit Rumi.net for more info. Thank you.

11. Your Body is a Guest House On YouTube

Shahram Shiva's latest book is now available on Amazon.
Rumi: The Beloved Is You
My Favorite Collection of Deeply Passionate, Whimsical,
Spiritual and Profound Poems and Quotes
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13. Welcome to Rumi Network (Established 1988 in NYC. Online since 1996)
Rumi Network is dedicated to Rumi, the brilliant classical Persian poet, mystic and philosopher. Rumi is the most prolific poet in history and one of the greatest mystic/philosophers of all time. He is well known for his incredibly moving poems and beliefs in universal love, tolerance of religion and race, self-empowerment, spiritual development and enlightenment.

Rumi Network is a major portal for Rumi enthusiasts all over the world. The mission of Rumi Network is to promote and maintain a greater global understanding of Rumi through the works of Valentino St. Germain (aka Shahram Shiva). We are also focused on bringing Rumi's poetry and message into new cultures and languages. Over the years we have introduced Rumi to many non-English speaking countries, such as Germany, Romania, France, Italy, Spanish speaking nations and China, among many others.

14. We Support Authentic Rumi Interpretations
For a few years in early 2000's Rumi became the most widely read poet in America. Mr. Shiva says, "I began translating Rumi in 1988, and publishing, sharing and performing his poetry in 1991. I never thought that he would become so popular in the West in such a short time." Due to Rumi's sudden popularity in the US, publishers rushed to put out any book with Rumi in the title. Therefore, it's very rare to find interpretations of Rumi that are authentic, since almost all such books are written by those with no knowledge of the Persian language, its culture and mystical traditions.

Valentino St. Germain's aim has always been to provide authentic translations of Rumi's work. For example his most unique and award-winning 1995 book Rending The Veil: Literal and Poetic Translations of Rumi, provides 252 poems of Rumi is 4 versions. 1. Original Persian calligraphy. 2. Transliteration. 3. Word-for-word translation. 4. Literal, or close to the original, English translation. Sample pages of this book are available here.

In addition to the unique Rending The Veil--a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award, Shahram Shiva's translations and interpretations of Rumi have been published in several books. His latest book is Rumi: The Beloved Is You. Shahram Shiva's Rumi interpretations are quoted and referred to in several hundred books in English and other languages.

Valentino St. Germain's (as Shahram Shiva) lyrical Rumi renditions are also available in two groundbreaking music albums: "Rumi: Lovedrunk" and "Rumi: Love Evolve" an album of original songs and Rumi poems. Val St Germain is a master Rumi presenter and the voice of Rumi for the 21st Century.