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Attar speaks of his own poetry in various contexts including the epilogues of his long narrative poems. He confirms the guess likely to be made by every reader that he possessed an inexhaustible fund of thematic and verbal inspiration. He writes that when he composed his poems, more ideas came into his mind than he could possibly use. He also states that the effort of poetical composition threw him into a state of trance in which he could not sleep.
Like his contemporary Khaqani,Attar was not only convinced that his poetry had far surpassed all previous poetry, but that it was to be intrinsically unsurpassable at any time in the future, seeing himself as the "seal of the poets" and his poetry as the "seal of speech."
Works :
* Dīvān (دیوان)
* Asrār-Nāma (اسرار نامه)
* Maqāmāt-e Toyūr (= Manteq aṭ-Ṭayr; مقامات الطیور or منطق الطیر)
* Moṣībat-Nāma (مصیب نامه)
* Elāhī-Nāma (الهی نامه)
* Jawāher-Nāma (جواهر نامه)
* Šarḥ al-Qalb[14] (شرح القلب)
Attar's Seven Valleys of Love in the Manteq al-Tayr

* The Valley of Quest
* The Valley of Love
* The Valley of Understanding
* The Valley of Independence and Detachment
* The Valley of Unity
* The Valley of Astonishment and Bewilderment
* The Valley of Deprivation and Death