“All you have been, and seen, and done, and thought,
Not You but I, have seen and been and wrought:
I was the Sin that from Myself rebell'd:
I the Remorse that tow'rd Myself compell'd…”

The Conference of the Birds (1177)

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Persian Sufi poet 1145–1230

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