(43 quotes found)
“I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.”
Muhammad Iqbal
“I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.”
“Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.”
“The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.”
“Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.”
“Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.”
“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
“Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.”
“Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.”
“Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.”
