Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet
"Looking For Your Own Face" as translated by Coleman Barks in The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia
“The human heart is a deep still pool; in it are fishes of gold and silver, darting playfully, and slow-heaving slimy monsters, and tarnished treasure hoards, the infinite animalcular life; but when you look down at it you see but your own reflected face.”
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
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Book III, line 425
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