Motif
poetic inspiration through sweet lips and fragrant book
poetic_inspiration_through_sweet_lips_and_fragrant_book
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Inspired Speech and Eloquence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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The Persian Mystics: Jámí THE HIDDEN TRUTH / THE SEA OF BEING / THE REVELATION OF TRUTH / MIRROR AND FACE; lines 1343-1376 confidence: low
“Lips sweet as sugar on my pen bestow, / And from my book let streams of odour flow.”
The Yúsuf and Zulaikha opening asks for sugar-sweet lips to be bestowed on the pen and fragrance to flow from the book.
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