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We got the credits in the movie-they’re there at the end, and it became the most beautiful closing I could have imagined for the movie. It moved me very much, and I bought the book.

I found this poem in a book about an illuminated poet talking about Allah, talking about God.

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Then my driver says, “What do we do?” When I have any free time, I say “Let’s go into a bookshop.” So we went to a bookshop, and I was browsing the shelves.

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Then we were already shooting the movie and it was the first week of the shoot, and I always arrive an hour or two before the crew to the set and I was a little earlier than that. In a December 2017 conference call discussion about The Shape of Water with several colleges, del Toro reveals even more about the source of the poem: He said it was his love letter to God and we’re gonna use it. It’s written by a man hundreds of years ago,” which I say in the narration. I’ll tell you what, I didn’t have the final narration until about two weeks before I stopped shooting, and Guillermo came up to me and he said, “I found this poem in a bookstore today. Jenkins recalls what del Toro told him about the poem’s source: Some additional details are given in a November 2017 Gold Derby interview with Richard Jenkins, who plays Giles in the movie. Though he doesn’t remember exactly where the verse came from, del Toro remembers reading it in a book of Islamic poetry, found in a bookstore he’d frequent before going on set to film. This claim appears in a review of the The Shape of Water published in the November 23, 2017, issue of Northern Kentucky University’s student newspaper, The Northerner: As it turns out, del Toro claims he came across the poem in a book of Islamic poetry. Other online attributions we came across, such as the claim that the poem was written by Byzantine monk Symeon the New Theologian ( 942-1022 A.D.) and appears in an English translation of his Divine Eros, also did not pan out upon review of the cited works.įailing to find any reputable print or online sources that identify the poem’s author, Kathy and I took a closer look at what, if anything, Guillermo del Toro has said about the poem. While many online sources attribute the lines to the 13th century Sufi mystic poet Rumi, none we found provide an exact citation that could be used to verify Rumi’s authorship. I and my colleague, Kathy Woodrell, who fielded one of the questions the Library received about the poem, searched numerous full-text databases, poetry indexes, and online resources -many of which are listed on my online guide to finding poems -for the poem, but couldn’t find any exact matches. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress. Persia, 1441, copied by Salah al Din Mir Shah. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.

Your presence fills my eyes with your love. Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. The narrator then recites the following poem (which I have not lineated): The poem, as I mentioned, appears at the close of The Shape of Water, and is introduced by the movie’s narrator, who says ( minor spoiler alert!): “But when I think of her, of Elisa, the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love hundreds of years ago.” And they are not the only ones in pursuit of an answer: searching the poem’s text online reveals many websites, online forums, and social media services -from Reddit to Twitter -whose users are actively trying to figure out the poem’s author.

Such is the case with the poem at the end Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 movie -and recent winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture - The Shape of Water.ĭuring the past month, several moviegoers who have seen The Shape of Water have written us in desperate search of the original source and author of this poem. That said, it’s not always possible to pinpoint the exact source of a poem, or to definitively identify a poem’s author. I and my colleagues in the Library’s new Researcher and Reference Services Division (formerly the Humanities and Social Sciences Division) field the vast majority of “help finding a poem” questions that come in through the Library’s Ask a Librarian service, and we pride ourselves on having quite a good success rate in identifying poems and their sources for patrons. Most people are able to recall little more than a phrase or line from the sought poem and the general period of their life when they read it (e.g., elementary school or high school), and then hope that our reference librarians can successfully apply their sleuthing skills to the task of tracking down the complete poem.

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The Library of Congress receives hundreds of questions each year from people seeking help identifying the full text and authors of poems they read years -if not decades -ago.