Ancient Wisdom Atlas

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.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


sufi

  • 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.

    read in the book