حور وشاعر
ز شرر ستارہ جویم ز ستارہ آفتابیسر منزلی ندارم کہ بمیرم از قراری
English translation
In the spark I seek a star, in the star a sun: I have no wish for a destination, for if I stop I die.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 10 in “حور وشاعر” (The Houri And The Poet) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۷ / ۱۰