Hafez Quotes

What necessity for a sword to slay the lover, when a glance can deprive him of half his life!

Sweet are the garden, the rose, and wine, but they would not be sweet without the company of my darling.

The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,
That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.

It is a crime to seek to raise but self,
Before all other men to praise but self,
The pupil of the eye a lesson gives,
Be all submitted to thy gaze but self.

Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow,
And bid thy pensive heart be glad,
Whate’er the frowning zealots say:
Tell them, their Eden cannot show
A stream so clear as Rocnabad,
A bow’r so sweet as Mosellay.

Look at the smile on the earth’s lips this morning, she laid again with me last night.

Forget not when dear friend to friend returned,
Forget not days gone by, forget them not!
My mouth has tasted bitterness, and learned
To drink the envenomed cup of mortal lot;
Forget not when a sweeter draught was mine,
Loud rose the songs of them that drank that wine — Forget them not!

Forget not loyal lovers long since dead,
Though faith and loyalty should be forgot.

یک دم غریق بحر خدا شو گمان مبر

کز آب هفت بحر به یک موی تر شوی

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.

Of all the roses in the world
A rosy face... is quite enough for me

در طریقت هر چه پیش سالک آید خیر اوست

Am Determined One regret, dear world,
That I am determined not to have
When I am lying on my deathbed
Is that
I did not kiss you enough.

I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
A Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,

The teacher of Hafiz, Muhammad Attar, was a Perfect Master, and so was Hafiz himself. The poetry of Hafiz can be read as a record of a human being’s journey to perfect joy, perfect knowing and perfect love.

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