This is only the beginning of love — why do you weep? Wait and watch what is yet to come.Mir Taqi Mir
“My existence is like a bubble; all this display is but a mirage.”
“My existence is like a bubble; all this display is but a mirage.”
— 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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