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I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

Name: I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
ISBN: 0143037811

From the renowned translator of The Gift, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers To Persians , the poems of Hafiz are not "classical literature" from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and i

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“I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The astonishing Light Of your own Being!”

— Hafiz, amazon.com

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“Lean your sweet neck and mouth Out of that dark nest where you hide, I will pour effulgence into your mind.”

— Hafiz, amazon.com

“The heart is a The thousand-stringed instrument That can only be tuned with Love.”

— Hafiz, amazon.com

“This is the kind of Friend You are - Without making me realize My soul's anguished history, You slip into my house at night, And while I am sleeping, You silently carry off All my suffering and sordid past In Your beautiful Hands.”

— Hafiz, amazon.com