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A beautiful poem from Farid ud-Din Attar of Nishapur (Attar of Neishaboor) — one of the great Sufi mystics and poets of Iran. The quatrain here is short, but its meaning is vast, layered, and deeply spiritual. Attar says:

The Poem (in Persian and English Translation)
Persian:
گر مَردِ رهی، میانِ خون باید رفت
وز پای فتاده، سرنگون باید رفت
تو پای به ره در نِه و از هیچ مپرس
خود راه بگویدت که چون باید رفت
Translation:
If you are a traveler of the Path, you must pass through blood.
Even if you fall, you must go onward, headlong.
Step onto the path — ask nothing, seek no directions;
The path itself will tell you how you must go.