Language Quotes by Rumi

37 Language quotes by Rumi

Rumi’s verses often dissolve the barrier between speaker and soul. In these thirty‑seven lines he shows how language can become a pathway to the divine.

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You had better run from me. My words are fire.

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Raise your words, not your voice.

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There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

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The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

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Speak with the language of love.

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No more words. Hear only the voice within.

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All language is a longing for home.

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Empathy is even better than talking in one language

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The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

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In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

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Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.

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Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

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I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words…

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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

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The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

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There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light…

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“Words are ways we add up breath, counting stress and syllable with our exacting musical knack that takes us farther and farther…

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There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified…

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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to…

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You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in…

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If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

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Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.

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There is a place where words are born of silence.

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The radiant one in me has never said a word.

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silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

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Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.

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Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

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Close the language-door, and open the love-window

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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

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Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

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My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the…

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Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

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This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever…

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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

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Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

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Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

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There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

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Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

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Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

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I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

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What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

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We are born of love. Love is our mother.

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