Persian Poetry Quotes

Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.

Be with those who help your being.

I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.

I have a taste for ghazals and I like them.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

Within the Iranian culture, people don't really participate in the arts.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.