Rumi
The people of love are hidden among the peoples As a liberal encompassed by the — Rumi
Seek the pearl, O brother, in the shell, And seek for skill among the learned. — Rumi
One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call. He is the first, He is the last, — Rumi
One impulse from God is better than a hundred efforts. — Rumi
Seek sweet syrup in the garden of love, For nature is a seller of vinegar and a — Rumi
Apparently thou art the ruler of thy wife like water over fire, In reality thou — Rumi
Serpents’ poison is life to serpents, In relation to mankind it is death. — Rumi
I will not shun thy blow, for very crude Is the heart that ne’er burned in the f — Rumi
Opposite shows up opposite as a Frank a negro. — Rumi
Welcome soul-producing sun! when a single ray of thine hath appeared, Thousands — Rumi
The strength of strongest man can merely split a stone, The power that informs m — Rumi
Reynold A. Nicholson, Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz — Rumi