277 Quotes About Rumi

At night, I open the windowand ask the moon to comeand press its face against mine.Breathe into me.Close the language-doorand open the love-window.The moon won't use the door,only the window.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound.Are you coming?

For without you, I swear, the townHas become like a prison to me.Distraction and the mountainAnd the desert, all I desire.

Oh sky, without me, do not change,Oh moon, without me, do not shine;Oh earth, without me, do not grow,Oh time, without me, do not go....Oh, you cannot go, without me.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.So the nightbirds will start singing.

Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;Love is the work of wrestlers.The one who becomes a servant of loversis really a fortunate sovereign.Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love.Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.

For the thirst to possess your love,Is worth my blood a hundred times.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?