Jalal al-Din Rumi

Brood: to think anxiously or gloomily about, ponder

To Brood

To brood is to wander through a grove

where one sheep strays

and a hundred wolves follow.

Why did I make brooding my vocation

when awe was an option?

Thought spinner, 

mull the wine of wonder. 

— Rumi  translated from the Farsi by Haleh Liza Gafori