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Hafez Quotes

1315–1390

Hafez or Hāfiz (1325/26–1389/90) was a Persian mystic poet.

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Wash from the dross of life thy hands as the Path’s men of old
And, winning love’s alchemic power, transmute thyself to gold.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,
That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.

What necessity for a sword to slay the lover, when a glance can deprive him of half his life!

Thy curl is ever drawing the heart silently
Who hath power to speak (quarrel) with Thy heart-vanishing curl.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

What holds in peace this two-fold world, let this two-fold sentence show
Amity to every friend, courtesy to every foe.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Profit by companionship; this two-doored house (i.e., life) forsaken,
No pathway that can thither lead in future time is taken.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Sweet are the garden, the rose, and wine, but they would not be sweet without the company of my darling.

Slight me not zealot, go thou hence ashamed
For naught is slight that has by God been framed.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Like are, if void of purity, the k‘aba and the idle-fane
The house that has not chastity can in its walls no good contain.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Be misery thy portion here, O Sage, or be it bliss
Refer it not to other men: ’tis God who orders this.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Learn meekness from the shell in ocean’s bed
And pearls on one who wounds thy head bestow.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Though many a rose in this garden is born
No mortal who culls one escapes from the thorn.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate,
"Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!"

The meshes of the net are strong but God withholds His grace from none,
Not otherwise could man prevail o’er Satan the stone-pelted one.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Enjoy! ’twixt lip and mouth the bounds as nothing are
If humbled, care not; as the rose be gay,
Life’s honours which pass soon away, as nothing are.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

I have shut my eye like a falcon to all the world
Since my (inward) eye is open to thy beauteous countenance.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Reckon as plunder the path of profligacy. For this track
Like the path to the hidden treasure is not evident to every one.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

If by the Holy Spirit’s grace the gift again be won
The works which the Messias wrought by others may be done.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Come! hear of those who have felt sorrow’s touch
Their words are few, but what they mean is much.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

High birth may be a pearl of lustre, but let thine effort be
To rise by deeds. Distinct is greatness from birth and pedigree.

A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hafez (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.