Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry Quotes

“Unity's most salient attribute and manifestation is found in love.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“Love is described by the Sufis as the remedy of all ills and the alchemy of existence. Love transforms poverty to riches, pauper into prince, war into peace, ignorance into knowledge and hell into heaven.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“Artistic creation contains in miniature form the entire story of creation.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“It should be pointed out that poetry, the inspiration for which hails from the higher world of love and unity, functions as a motive and cause of unity. The therapeutic value of poetry—as well as its metaphysical motivation and aesthetic significance in Sufism arises from this spiritual quality.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz