What does life give me in the end but sorrow? What do love's good and evil send but sorrow? I've only seen one true companion - pain, And I have know… - Hafez

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What does life give me in the end but sorrow?
What do love's good and evil send but sorrow?
I've only seen one true companion - pain,
And I have known no faithful friend but sorrow.

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About Hafez

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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"Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive,
Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.”
- By Hafez, as appeared in "A Thousand Splendid Suns

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The moon is most happy
When it is full.
And the sun always looks
Like a perfectly minted gold coin
That was just Polished
And placed in flight
By God’s playful Kiss.
And so many varieties of fruit
Hang plump and round
From branches that seem like a Sculptor’s hands.
I see the beautiful curve of a pregnant belly
Shaped by a soul within,

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