“A rather serious—maybe too serious—university student from another country came to Hafiz to personally ask for his permission to translate some of Hafiz's poems into a little book. And he said to Hafiz, ‘What is the essential quality in your poems that I need to incorporate in my translations to mak…”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: university, Students, Wisdom, Poems, Poetry
“Once a young woman came to Hafiz and said, ‘What is the sign of someone knowing God?’ And Hafiz became very quiet, and stood in silence for nearly a minute... lovingly looking deep into the young woman's eye, then softly spoke, ‘My dear, they have dropped the knife. The person who knows God has drop…”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: God, Religion, Faith
“If anything your palm does touch cannot help reveal the Beloved.”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: Beloved, romance
“My words are full of golden secrets that are not too hard to crack, and will remedy one hundred fears and ills.”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: Secret Secrets, Remedy, fears, Ills
“If a cherished tear of gratitude has not sung leaping from your eye.”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: Tears, Crying, Gratitude
“If your knees have not buckled in ecstasy while standing when a veil parts.”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: Lust, Ecstasy, Veil
“The forest, letting me walk amongst its naked limbs, had me on my knees again in silence shouting—yes, yes my holy friend, let your splendor devour me.”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: Forest, Holy, Splendor
“A song's wink aligned me with joy. And a tune paradise hums I came to know.”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: Music, Paradise
“The mountain's face lifted me higher than itself.”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: Mountains, scenery
“I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through—listen to this music.”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: Christ's Breath, Music
“Look at the smile on the Earth's lips this morning, she laid again with me last night!”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.comTagged: romance, Intimacy