“Sin and Contrition — Retribution owed,
And cancell'd — Pilgrim, Pilgrimage, and Road,
Was but Myself toward Myself: and Your
Arrival but Myself at my own Door…”

— Attar of Nishapur, book The Conference of the Birds

The Conference of the Birds (1177)

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Persian Sufi poet 1145–1230

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