The Book of Rumi Quotes

“When You Reveal Those Rose-Colored Cheeks

Ghazal 1711

1941 When you reveal those rose-colored cheeks (of yours),you
make the stones whirl2 from joy.

Put (your) head out from the veil once again, for the sake of
amazed lovers--

So that knowledge may lose the way, (and) the intellectual may
shatter (his) learning;

So that water may become a pearl3 from your reflection, (and) fire
may quit war.

1945 With (the presence of) your beauty, I don't desire the (lovely
full) moon or those few little hanging lanterns (in the heavens).

(And) with (the presence of) your face, I don't call the ancient rusty
sky a "mirror."

You breathed into and created this narrow world4 in another form
once again.

O Venus,5 make that harp melodious again, in desire for his
Mars-like eyes!”
― Rumi, The Book of Rumi: Ruba'is, Ghazals, Masnavis and a Qasida