“I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you”
Source: The Love Poems of Rumi
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Famous Rumi Quotes
Source: The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
“Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
Source: Selected poems
“I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.”
“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: The Pocket Rumi
“There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.”
“You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion”
“In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances”
Source: The Pocket Rumi
“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
Source: Love is a Stranger
“They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.”
“I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover”
“Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another.”