The spirit of feeling is lost when a sentiment is expressed in words. Do you think a person who really loves need say, “I love you”? No, the word love cannot express his feeling; it is too small in comparison to what love means to him who truly loves. Yes, there is a beauty in words, as there is beauty in flowers. But the flowers may be called the angels of the earth. They live only in heaven; on earth they appear for a moment and fade away. The feelings are like angels. The one who lives in his feelings lives in heaven, and when he puts them into words he drops down on the earth. And however beautiful his imagination and his choice of words, he turns angels into flowers.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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