Quote by Muhammad Iqbal
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the h

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Faith
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Nature
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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. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Experience
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. Its for others its for others to use. – Leonard Cohen

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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. – Mark Strand

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Poetry

Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your prayer. – Terri Guillemets, “A lonely pen at night,” 1992

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I think thats what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. – Diane Wakoski

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius

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