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.
Quotes
- The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,
That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.- Odes, CXLIII.
Misattributed
- Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.- From Daniel Ladinsky, The Gift: Poems by Hafiz (1999), p. 34. This is not a translation or interpretation of any poem by Hafez;[1] it is an original poem by Ladinsky inspired by the spirit of Hafez in a dream.
Quotes about Hafez
- And what though all the world should sink!
Hafis! with thee, alone with thee
Will I contend! joy, misery,
The portion of us twain shall be;
Like thee to love, like thee to drink,—
This be my pride,—this, life to me!