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.
HAFEZPoetry reveals that there is no empty space.
More Hafez Quotes
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Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
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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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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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Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
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Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.
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I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.
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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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I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you Pray Somewhere in this world – Something good will happen.
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The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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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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Come Dance with Me , come dance.
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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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You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
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Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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