خردہ
سخن گو طفلک و برنا و پیر استسخن را سالی و ماہی نباشد
English translation
The poet is child, youth and old man all in one; distinctions of age are unknown to poetry.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
بچہ، جوان اور بوڑھا سب بات کرتے ہیں ؛ سخن کے لیے مہ و سال (عمر) کی کوئی قید نہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 18 in “خردہ” (Small-scale, detailed) in the section A Picture of Europe, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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