The station of love is lofty; love is ancient, without beginning
Whoever speaks the word of love is the tongue of all-power
Yunus Emre, Dîvân (13th-14th century); for the couplet see A. Azmi Bilgin, "Yunus'un Sözü".
Love has a station, says Yunus.
Like a place to climb to.
Then he adds: this station is old.
It was there before we came.
So a person does not begin love.
He joins a word already long begun.
Whoever speaks that word thinks he is using his own tongue.
Yet the one using the tongue is another.
A person hears this only when he falls silent.