The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
HAFEZCarry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun
More Hafez Quotes
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Run my dear, From anything, That may not strengthen, Your precious budding wings.
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If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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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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The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine…that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
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I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.
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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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Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
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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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True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.
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Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.
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When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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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.
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Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
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