Persian poetry

بنى آدم اعضاء يک پیکرند که در آفرينش ز يک گوهرند
چو عضوى بدرد آورد روزگار دگر عضوها را نماند قرار

Of one Essence is the human race

thus has Creation put the base

One Limb impacted is sufficient

For all Others to feel the Mace

–Saadi, quoting Ferdowsi (thanks again to Homeyra for this additional information re Ferdowsi)

Inscribed on the UN’s Hall of Nations in New York

Come, come, whoever you are.

Wanderer, idolater, worshipper of fire,

Come even though you have broken your vows a hundred time,

Come, and come yet again,

Ours is not a caravan of despair…

–the wonderful Sufi mystic poet Rumi