“He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.”

— Attar of Nishapur

"Intoxicated by the Wine of Love" as translated by Margaret Smith from "The Jawhar Al-Dhat"

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Persian Sufi poet 1145–1230

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