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The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing QUOTES

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing QUOTES

1 " The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

2 " Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

3 " A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

4 " Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

5 " Every story is us "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

6 " Love is a madman,

working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes,
running through the mountains, drinking poison,
and now quietly choosing annihilation. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

7 " You could string a hundred endless days together,
My soul would find no comfort from this pain.
You laugh at my tale? You may be educated
But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

8 " Your faces are very beautiful,
but they are wooden cages.

You had better run from me.
My words are fire. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

9 " Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

10 " Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

11 " We sometimes make spiderwebs of smoke and saliva, fragile though-packets
Leave thinking to the one who gave intelligence
Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improve "

― Coleman Barks , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

12 " She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

13 " You had better run from me. My words are fire. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

14 " If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

15 " People who repress desires
often turn, suddenly,
into hypocrites. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

16 " Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

17 " Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

18 " There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

19 " A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

20 " This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children. "

― Rumi , The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing