Whatever there is in the world, it turns out, is love
Knowledge, it turns out, is only idle talk
Fuzuli, Turkish Dîvân, *kıt'a* (short poem) 19, ed. Kenan Akyüz, Süheyl Beken, Sedit Yüksel, Müjgân Cunbur, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1958.
Whatever is in the world, it turns out, is love.
And knowledge only idle talk.
These words are not said to belittle knowledge.
They show where knowledge stands.
Describing something is one thing.
Burning inside it is another.
A person knows the definition of fire by heart.
Without reaching out his hand, he does not know its heat.
When the book is closed, what remains
is that warmth.