A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.
HAFEZThe lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.
More Hafez Quotes
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Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
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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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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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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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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
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Laugh because that is the purest sound.
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All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
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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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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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God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.
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Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun
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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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People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
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