Quotes from The Love Poems of Rumi

“You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing Your Praises
but stand mute
with the agony of wishing in my heart !”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it

Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for

Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did

I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes

My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold

I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine

Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow

My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you

Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant
for me
the earth and sky

My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“Desire

I desire you
more than food
and drink

My body
my senses
my mind
hunger for your taste

I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world

I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“Rais your words not your voice ,it is rain that grows flowers , not thunder.☔️”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“In the silence of love
you will find the spark of life”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“My Beloved

Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“My wails of sorrow
are tormenting my soul”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“Like the shadow
I am
and
I am not”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“I'm drenched
in the flood
which has yet to come

I'm tied up
in the prison
that has yet to exist

Not having played
the game of chess
I'm already the checkmate

Not having tasted
a single cup of your wine
I'm already drunk

Not having entered
the battlefield
I'm already wounded and slain

I no longer
know the difference
between image and reality

Like the shadow
I am
and
I am not”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

“I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine”
― Rumi, quote from The Love Poems of Rumi

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