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Muslim / Sufi
12th Century

About Najmoddin Kobra

Timeline (1145 - 1221)

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English version by
Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady

Original Language
Persian/Farsi
What never existed

 
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady

What never existed
     leaves nothing in the hand
          but wind
while "reality"
     offers nothing but imperfection
          and failure;
that being the case
     we can only dream
          of what never was
and as for what "really is,"
     remember:
          it doesn't exist.

 

 

-- from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady

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