Saturday, January 12, 2008

everything except love is devoured by love..


The wild beast wouldn’t dare to devour the flesh of the lover:

Love is recognized both by the corrupt and by the good;

and if the beast should attempt to rip the lover apart with words,

the lover’s flesh will become a fatal poison.

To the beak of Love the two worlds are but a single grain.

Everything except love is devoured by Love.




translated by Camille and Kabir Helminski“Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance”Threshold Books, 1996


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