The best-known verses of Yunus Emre
The top 3 according to 166 votes from people: I did not come for disputes; my work is for love. The home of love is the heart: I came to build hearts. · 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. · Come, let us be friends and make things easy. Let us love and be loved: this world is left to no one.. (Updated Feb 28, 2025.)
"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.
Automatically translated (original in Türkçe). See the original
Top 14
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I did not come for disputes; my work is for love. The home of love is the heart: I came to build hearts.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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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.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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Come, let us be friends and make things easy. Let us love and be loved: this world is left to no one.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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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.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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A word can end a war; a word can cost a head.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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Few words are a load for a man; many words are a load for a beast.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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Knowledge means knowing; knowledge is knowing yourself. If you do not know yourself, what is the use of reading?
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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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.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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I went to the graveyard in the morning and saw everyone lying dead, each one helpless, having lost his life.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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Owner of goods, owner of property: where is its first owner? Goods are a lie, property is a lie; come, amuse yourself a while.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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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.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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I wrapped myself in flesh and bone and appeared as Yunus.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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There is no great wealth without some ill-gotten gain, and no great talk without some lies.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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Lovers do not die; what dies is only the animal.
Divan of Yunus Emre (13th–14th century).
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