Rumi Quotes About Songs

• Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

  Rumi

  Song, Watches, Existence

  Rumi (2018). “The Spiritual Poems of Rumi”, p.46, Wellfleet

• All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.

  Rumi

  Song, Wall, Vanity

• Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

  Rumi

  Song, Heart, Silence

• You’re a song, a wished-for song.

  Rumi

  Song

• Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!

  Rumi

  Song, Carpe Diem, Heaven

• All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You.

  Rumi

  Song, Singing

• We Are All the Same
  Listen to the reeds as they sway apart;
  Hear them speak of lost friends.
  At birth, you were cut from your bed,
  Crying and grasping in separation.
  Everyone listens, knowing your song.
  You yearn for others who know your name,
  And the words to your lament.
  We are all the same, all the same,
  Longing to find our way back;
  Back to the one, back to the only one.

  Rumi

  Love, Song, Cutting

• Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Song, Giving

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.263, Penguin UK

• There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

  Rumi

  Song, Laughter, Way

• Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.

  Rumi

  Song, Hurt, Sky

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Way Things Should”

• When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

  Rumi

  Song, Garden, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

• There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .

  Rumi

  Song, Spring, Fire

• In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances

  Rumi

  Song, Wall, House

• Let your throat-song
  be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length
  suppliant, at the door.

  Rumi

  Song, Strong, Fall

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.304, Penguin UK

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