“I asked him next, ‘And beauties' curls That tumble down so sinuously, What is their meaning? Whence do they come?’ ‘Hafez,’ the sage replied to me, ‘It's your distracted, lovelorn heart That asks these questions constantly.’”Tagged: Love, beauty, Lovelorn
“Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly And wants to rip to shreds All your erroneous notions of truth.”Tagged: Love, Truth
“Only a Perfect One Who is always Laughing at the word Two Can make you know Of Love.”Tagged: Perfect, Love
“Run freely into the sky meadow. If I whistled, She would turn her head and look at me. If I then waved my arms, She would come back wagging a marvelous tail Of stars.”Tagged: Love, Tail of Stars
“Pass around the cup fair maiden, Because Love seemed easy at first, But now I see how difficult it is.”Tagged: Love, Wine, difficult
“I long for you, even as your words of rejection still sound in the air; Anything sounds sweet, if your lips say it.”Tagged: Longing, Love
“In the Book of Life, my name is eternal. No one dies whose heart is on fire with Love.”Tagged: Book of Life, Immortality, Love
“When I long for you, I don't want wine, may the barrels rot and the tavern age. Even if it's the wine of heaven, throw it away! Wine has no purpose if the Beloved is not there.”Tagged: Love, Wine, Beloved
“If by misfortune I've missed the Beloved's presence, then bless me with the dust from somewhere the Beloved walked.”Tagged: Beloved, Love
“Love isn't safe, its a dangerous road, There's no choice, but to leave life to chance.”Tagged: Love, Safety, danger, Chance, Choice