Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.
HAFEZIf, 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.
More Hafez Quotes
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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 world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
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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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Grieve not because thou understand-not life’s mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
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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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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.
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Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
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Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!
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Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
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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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On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.
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Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?
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Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.
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Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
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