Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. – Rumi

This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober. – Rumi

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that light becomes this art. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. – Rumi