Persian Poetry Quotes

#1. I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell

Omar Khayyam

#2. Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.

Jon Stewart

#3. Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

David Lynch

#4. You're already naked in this world
in this time
in this life
beacause your next love
your next hunger
you next laughter
and even your next tear
may never come

Baharak Sedigh

#5. With wine beside a gently flowing brook - this is the best;
Withdrawn from sorrow in some quiet nook - this is the best

Hafez

#6. But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Lafcadio Hearn

#7. The Water said to the dirty one, "Come here."
The dirty one said, "I am too ashamed."
The water replied, "How will your shame be washed away without me?

Rumi

#8. Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,
and strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light

Omar Khayyam

#9. Farsi Couplet:
Ba khak darat rau ast maara,
Gar surmah bechashm dar neaayad.


English Translation:
The dust of your doorstep is just the right thing to apply,
If Surmah (kohl powder) does not show its beauty in the eye!

Amir Khusrau

#10. Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Alexander Pushkin

#11. My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished.

Diane Setterfield

#12. I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#13. Stay away from the underground lake I implore,
The Siren will see you are heard of no more.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#14. You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin

Rumi

#15. Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

Emme Rollins

#16. In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

Carter G. Woodson

#17. Be with those who help your being.

Rumi

#18. Woman is the light of God.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#19. But I am Niniane of Avalon, and I account to no man on this earth for what I do with what is mine
yes, mine and not yours. I am not Roman, to let some man tell me what I may do with what the Goddess gave me

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#20. I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Theodore Roosevelt

#21. How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

Neville Chamberlain