Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

wounds as flowers

wounds_as_flowers

A motif of the Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


sufi

  • The Mesnevi XIII. / XVII. / THE END. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 15639-15771 confidence: medium

    “All Muslim poets speak of wounds as ‘flowers.’”

    The note states that Muslim poets speak of wounds as flowers.

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