Through love bitter things turn sweet, through love copper turns to gold.
از محبت تلخها شیرین شود / از محبت مسها زرین شود
Az mahabbet telh-hâ şîrîn şeved / Az mahabbet mis-hâ zerrîn şeved
Rumi, Masnavi II, the story of Luqman.
Rumi begins both lines
with the same word.
Through love, through love.
The bitter turns sweet.
Copper turns to gold.
The material does not change.
The same life, the same day, the same house.
The one looking changes.
Beside someone who loves,
an unbearable task
one day grows light.
Here a person learns
both loving and poetry.