Every leaf, every shrub knows the state of my heart; the flower alone does not know, though the whole garden knows.Mir Taqi Mir
“You appeared before me and I lost my senses; you parted me even from my own self.”
“You appeared before me and I lost my senses; you parted me even from my own self.”
— MIR TAQI MIR
Urdu poet · 1723 – 1810
Mir Taqi Mir, honoured as Khuda-e-Sukhan (God of Poetry), was the pre-eminent Urdu poet of eighteenth-century Delhi and Lucknow. His ghazals of love, loss and the decline of Delhi set the standard for classical Urdu poetry. His six diwans and masnavis remain central to the Urdu canon.
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