I love this quote. I found it in a book of essays by the great Sufi Mystic and Musician Hazrat Inayat Khan.
There is no poet in the world who is not a mystic. A poet is a mystic whether consciously or unconsciously, for no one can write poetry without inspiration, and when a poet touches the profound depths of the spirit, struck by some aspect of life, he brings forth a poem as a diver brings forth a pearl.
Khan was a beautiful writer. This quote happens to come from a chapter on the writings of Rumi in his book The Heart of Sufism.
