The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
HAFEZThe great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
More Hafez Quotes
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Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.
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Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.
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I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
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All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
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The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.
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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.
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Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
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Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.
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Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.
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What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
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The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
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Light will someday split you open.
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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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