Persian Poet Quotes

Rumi

Saadi

Nizami Ganjavi

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

Sanai

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his own fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

Attar of Nishapur

The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.

Mahmoud Shabestari

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

The heart in which love and compassion for all living beings resides, can have no room for seeking after personal pleasures. O friend, take care to do no harm to any living creature; to hurt his creation is to forget the Creator.

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

The chemist of love Will this perishing mould, Were it made out of mire, Transmute into gold.

While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.