What is the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.
HAFEZNot loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
More Hafez Quotes
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I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.
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For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.
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Listen; this world is the lunatic’s sphere , Don’t always agree it’s real, Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door My address is somewhere else.
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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’
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You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say ‘here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life’.
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Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.
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When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.
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An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
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A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.
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Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light…And let it breathe.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.
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I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.
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