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And even though the drunkenness of love
Has ruined me,
My being’s built upon those ruins for
Eternity

Hafez

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Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī (known by his pen name Hafez or Hāfiz) (1325/26–1389/90) was a Persian mystic poet.

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Native Name: خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی

Alternative Names: of Shiraz Šams-al-Din Moḥammad • Anacreon of Persia • Khāja Shamsu Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī • Shamsoddin Mohammad Hafez-e Shirazi • Ḥāfeẓ • Moḥammed Shams od-Dīn Ḥafeẓ • Ḥāfiẓ • Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī • Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī • Shams-ud-Din Mohammed • Moḥammed Šams al-Dīn Ḥafeẓ • Hafiz • Khafiz • Hafis • Haafiz • Häfiz

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Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

This sky
Where we live
Is no place to lose your wings
So love, love
Love.

If you asked for a few words of comfort and
guidance I would quickly kneel by your side
and offer you a whole book … — Hafez, from “Companion for LIfe,” Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, eds. Phyliis Cole-Davis & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)

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