# The best-known verses of Yunus Emre

"I did not come for disputes; my work is for love", "Knowledge is knowing yourself" and "Come, let us be friends, let us make things easy": verses from the Divan of the 13th-century Anatolian poet Yunus Emre that everyone in Turkey knows, leaving out the modern sayings wrongly attributed to him.

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## Top 14

1. **I did not come for disputes; my work is for love. The home of love is the heart: I came to build hearts.** (15 · ▲16 ▼1) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
2. **If you have once broken a heart, the prayer you perform is no prayer; not even seventy-two nations could wash your hands and face clean.** (15 · ▲16 ▼1) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
3. **Come, let us be friends and make things easy. Let us love and be loved: this world is left to no one.** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
4. **What they call being a dervish is not the cloak and the crown. He who makes his heart a dervish has no need of a cloak.** (9 · ▲12 ▼3) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
5. **A word can end a war; a word can cost a head.** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
6. **Few words are a load for a man; many words are a load for a beast.** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
7. **Knowledge means knowing; knowledge is knowing yourself. If you do not know yourself, what is the use of reading?** (8 · ▲12 ▼4) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
8. **The paradise they talk about is a few mansions and a few houris. Give them to whoever wants them: it is You I need, You.** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
9. **I went to the graveyard in the morning and saw everyone lying dead, each one helpless, having lost his life.** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
10. **Owner of goods, owner of property: where is its first owner? Goods are a lie, property is a lie; come, amuse yourself a while.** (5 · ▲8 ▼3) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
11. **Whatever comes from You is sweet to me: a rosebud or a thorn, life or a shroud. Your wrath is sweet, and your grace is sweet.** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
12. **I wrapped myself in flesh and bone and appeared as Yunus.** (3 · ▲7 ▼4) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
13. **There is no great wealth without some ill-gotten gain, and no great talk without some lies.** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
14. **Lovers do not die; what dies is only the animal.** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).

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