The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The other aspect was the poetry written in Urdu-Hindustani which developed later. With the birth of this language poets found a great facility in expressing their souls, for it was composed of many languages, and this gave them a vast scope of expression. There were perhaps ten words for the sun and about twenty for the moon, and there was a great variety of expressions for any idea. In one way this made poetry easier, but in another way more difficult: easy for the gifted ones and difficult for those who wanted to make poetry mechanically, because the choice of words is not an easy thing. When there is a variety of objects in a shop it is difficult to make a choice, and to make a choice of words demands greater inspiration.


 
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