Rumi on Poetry about love
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“Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.”
“Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.”
“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.”
“Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.”
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”
“Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.”
“This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers.”