Hafez

Persian poet and mystic (1325–1390)

Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī (known by his pen name Hafez or Hāfiz) (1325/26–1389/90) was a Persian mystic poet.

COVER THE JAR FOR KHERQEPUSH HAS ARRIVED چه جای صحبت نامحرم است مجلس انس[1]

Quotes

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  • It is a crime to seek to raise but self,
    Before all other men to praise but self,
    The pupil of the eye a lesson gives,
    Be all submitted to thy gaze but self.
    • Quoted in A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations: Arabic And Persian (1911), p. 6

Odes

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  • The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,
    That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.
    • Odes, CXLIII, in Hafiz of Shiraz: Selections from his Poems, translated from the Persian, by Herman Bicknell (1875), p. 197; quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 59
  • Sweet are the garden, the rose, and wine, but they would not be sweet without the company of my darling.
    • In A Century of Ghazels, or. a Hundred Odes, Selected and Translated from the Diwan of Hafiz (1875), p. 48; quoted with a slight change in Love: A Book of Quotations (2012), ed. Ann Braybrooks, p. 71
  • What necessity for a sword to slay the lover, when a glance can deprive him of half his life!
    • In A Century of Ghazels, or. a Hundred Odes, Selected and Translated from the Diwan of Hafiz (1875), p. 77; quoted with a slight change in Love: A Book of Quotations (2012), ed. Ann Braybrooks, p. 71
  • 'Tis writ on Paradise's gate,
    "Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!"


Misattributed

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  • Even
    After
    All this time
    The Sun never says to the Earth,

    "You owe me."

    Look
    What happens
    With a love like that,
    It lights the whole sky.

Quotes about Hafez

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  • And what though all the world should sink!
    Hafis! with thee, alone with thee
    Will I contend! joy, misery,
    The portion of us twain shall be;
    Like thee to love, like thee to drink,—
    This be my pride,—this, life to me!
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  •   Encyclopedic article on Hafez on Wikipedia
  • Claud Field: A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations: Arabic And Persian, The Macmillan Company, 1911. [[3]]