All Quotes by Fakhruddin 'Iraqi
“Since we have quaffedhas lit a flame: shall not our hearts be burned?”
“Before this there was one heart"There is no love but Love."”
“The Morning of Manifestation sighed, so much rain that the earth shone with Light.”
“The magic springbut you have blocked the flow.”
“Beloved, I sought yousearched for signs of you.”
“They look, they see, but do not comprehend.through Whom, and why.”
“Know yourself: a cloudand behold your sun of intimacy.”
“By day I praised You and never knew it.”
“The Beloved's Loveliness owns of Her beauty.”
“Expressions are many to that single Beauty.”
“It speaks to me in the silence of this oneand the message of an eye winking.”
“I am Love: in heaven and earth I have no place; I am the Wondrous Phoenix whose spoor cannot be traced.”
“Like the sun I brighten each atom's cheek;above and below, no likeness of me can be found.”
“Love plays its lute behind the screen — where is a lover to listen to its tune?”
“The world has spilled Love's secret — Every atom babbles the mystery —”
“Love the phoenix cannot be trappedits desert holds not a single footprint.”
“The world but seems to be from Eternity.”