Quotes by شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī

There areSo many positions of Love:Each curve on a branch,The thousand different waysYour eyes can embrace us,The infinite shapes yourMind can draw,The spring Orchestra of scents,The currents of light combustingLike passionate lips,The revolution of Existence's skirtWhose folds contain other worlds.Your every sigh that falls againstHis inconceivableOmnipresentBody.

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

All your wounds from craving loveExist because of heroic deeds.

Sometimes I say to a poem,"I don't have the strengthTo wring out another dropOf the sun."And the poem will oftenRespondBy climbing onto a barroom table:Then lifts its skirt, winks,Causing the whole sky toFall.

Let's get looseWithCompassion,Let's drown in the deliciousAmbience ofLove.

Listen: this world is the lunatic's sphere,Don't always agree it's real,Even with my feet upon itAnd the postman knowing my doorMy address is somewhere else.

The heart is aThe thousand-stringed instrumentThat can only be tuned withLove.

This is the kind of FriendYou are -Without making me realizeMy soul's anguished history,You slip into my house at night,And while I am sleeping,You silently carry offAll my suffering and sordid pastIn Your beautifulHands.

The Earth would dieIf the sun stopped kissing her.