Rumi Quotes About Writing

• Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

  Rumi

  Writing, Heart, Eyelashes

• Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

  Rumi

  Love, Writing, Light

• God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Writing, Heart

• Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

  Rumi

  Reading, Writing, Remembrance

• Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

  Rumi

  Memories, Grief, Writing

• Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

  Rumi

  Writing, Thinking, Balls

• A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

  Rumi

  Writing, Broke, Pens

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.287, Penguin UK

• One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of.

  Rumi

  Writing, Angel, Eyelashes

• Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.

  Rumi

  Art, Writing, Wine

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