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poetry

People listened to Farsi texts, and to the great texts of our Baba Bulleh Shah, Khwaja Ghulam Farid, Mian Mohammad Bakhsh Jehlmi. People do listen to it these days, but much less than in those days.

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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

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So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.