Quotes by Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.”

“You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.”

“Days of wanting.Let them go by without worrying that they do.Stay where you areinside such a pure, hollow note.”

“All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.”

“A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content asyou play with outrage and wonder, details and gossip, language and dreams, plots and subplots, perceptions and small epiphanies.”

“Gods bodkin, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity -- the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty?”

“In your light I learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you.”

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”

“Now I am sober and theres only the hangover and the memory of love .”

“The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that ??”

“Im walking down the lineThat divides me somewhere in my mind.”

“Look at Love...how it tangleswith the one fallen in love .”

“A shadow cannot ignorethe sun that all day creates and movesit.”

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.”

“All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.”

“One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”

“The delight a friend feels when he hears a friends voice bring all that matters. There are those who hear within a voice the essence being said, and there are those who cant.”