Quotes about Hafiz

If thy darling favor thee
Both worlds thou mayest defy
Let fortune stand thy friend
Armies encamp against thee in vain

Curfews

Noise
Is a cruel ruler

Who is always imposing
Curfews.

While
Stillness and quiet
Break open the vintage
Bottles,

Awake the real
Band.

Dividing God



The moon starts singing

When everyone is asleep

And the planets throw a bright robe

Around their shouldersand whirl up

Close to her side.



Once I asked the moon,

Why do you and your sweet friends

Not perform so romantically like that

To a larger crowd?



And the whole sky chorus resounded,



"The admission price to hear

The lofty minstrels

Speak of love



Is affordable only to those

Who have not exhausted themselves

Dividing God all day

And thus need rest.



The thrilled Tavern fiddlers

Who are perched on the roof



Do not want their notes to intrude

Upon the ears

Where an accountant lives

With a sharp pencil

Keeping score of words

Another

In their great sorrow or sad anger

May have once said

To you."



Hafiz knows:

The sun will stand as your best man

And whistle

When you have found the courage

To marry forgiveness



When you have found the courage

to marry

Love.




Hafiz, "The Gift", translated by Daniel Ladinsky

"Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred....Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace."

A Cushion For Your Head Just sit there right now Don't do a thing Just rest. For you separation from God, From love, Is the hardest work In this World. Let me bring you trays of food And something That you like to Drink. You can use my soft words As a cushion For your Head. Hafiz (1320-1389)