Rafy Rohaan > Quotes

“Don’t hide your wild, live it.

Let the tamed ones worry
about dreaming soberly.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“That what secretly flows between us today,
will gleam tomorrow, the way full moon does.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“I don't know what keeps me mingled—
in excitement and grief.

I know no name of this fire I burn in—
but only that it is and I am.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“To the world—
lover is a fool.

To the lover—
world is deaf and blind.

Only if you could—
take a sip of his yearning.

Your soul would—
rise, hang—
and burn like crazy.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“You are the essence—
of who I am, what I do,
I cannot live without you.

You are my soul;
how can I separate you—
from my heart?

I am a fish, you are the vast ocean, you must not leave me at shore,
I cannot live without you.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Stop acting like a beggar,
know your place fool.

You’re a royal guest, a royal guest—
that has been sent to this beautiful illusion.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“An empty world,
Full of many million people.

An empty heart,
But one desire to keep you.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Yesterday I was drunk.
I wandered in darkness and—
mumbled poor definitions of love.
 
Today I am sober,
I am sleepless,
I am speechless.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Oh beloved, I am in love—
with your presence within.

For, it sets me free of my past—
it keeps me in the middle of my heart.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“You’re far
yet so close—
to my soul.

For, I have a home for you—
in my heart—
from the very beginning.

So, you’ll stay,
grow old,
and be buried with me.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Just like a rose petal—
flying powerlessly in the wind.
 
Wherever you turn, I turn.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Take my hand and escape me from what I've become.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Be forgetful,
disgraceful,
drunk in love.

Be notorious,
wild,
crazy in love.

Fall, die, be buried in love—
and rise as a lord in heaven.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Midnight, drunk, we laid.
I mumbled secrets—
I kept from entire world.

You kept laughing at me—
the way dawn laughs at dark.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Most people wander apart and sleep at night,
Some sit in the dark and chase the light.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“I might not rhyme
like others would—
in your mind.

But at the end,
I promise—
I'll make sense to you.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Last night I Kneeled and kissed the ground,
my soul spoke beyond skies.
 
"I know you love me — you know I'm ashamed.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Before, life was full of terror,
like a lost fawn in the dark forest.

Then love walked in,
now it's as fierce as a lion, roaring—
with no fear of death or after death.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“In this empty room,
there are a thousand flightpaths—
from this to beyond that,
from this nothing to you.

Seeking union with the moon,
this fish secretly swims up at night—
to kiss the surface.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“They wonder about the wine I mention,
the longing, and if it has to do something—
with the distance between us.

How it is between us—
and how I am you,
they will never know.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“What you hear or see doesn’t matter in this place,
where in silence wind pours the wine,
each soul drunk, whirls, unaware of anyone—
and anything.
 
In this place any soul that’s still and sober—
is dust in the wind.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“All day with everyone, at night in my room,
in crowded street or walking alone.

Something’s tormenting my soul,
something’s dragging me forcefully—
towards the hidden world.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Don't dissolve, but gleam
with the beauty of what’s in your heart.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“Love said to me, don’t try to define me,
If you think you can put me into words,
alas, my friend, you are at loss.

I am hidden from hidden things,
secrete of secretes.

I am different in each heart,
a hundred million faces,
a hundred million languages—
without a single word.

If you think you can define me,
alas, my friend, you are at loss.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“This deer senses a lion sitting nearby,
heart racing, mind stunned,
madness, running towards...
 
Last night—
in the gathering, you looked at me,
I kept gazing for another look,
then another and another…”
― Rafy Rohaan

“O wild soul, turn back to the source.
Your clay house is crumbling into dust.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“In burning fire lover is at peace. Let him be.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“I'm in the middle of a war within me.
“Against you, for you”
― Rafy Rohaan

“In these darkest nights,
my dark side is taking over the moonlight.”
― Rafy Rohaan

“All day gibberish voices of fear, reason
and grief in this city of heart,
at night all fall silent.

Then silence begins high clear flame notes.”
― Rafy Rohaan