Hafiz Poet Quotes

A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

The Great religions are the Ships, Poets the life Boats. Every sane person I know has jumped Overboard. That is good for business Isn't it Hafiz?

as the Persian poet Hafiz warns, “Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut you more deep. Let it ferment and season you as few human and even divine ingredients can.

It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse; the name of the poet, Hafiz, Hali, Iqbal, was sufficient guarantee. India—a hundred Indias—whispered outside beneath the indifferent moon, but for the time India seemed one and their own, and they regained their departed greatness by hearing its departure lamented, they felt young again because reminded that youth must fly.

The poet Hafiz writes, Don’t surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can.

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

Hafiz the poet said, “O thou who are trying to learn the marvel of love from the copybook of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

To paraphrase the poet Hafiz, the great traditions of the world are as a ship perpetually at sea. At least once in his or her life, every sane person will jump off. The poets are the ones waiting in the water with lifeboats. Make lifeboats.

English. I believe the ultimate gauge of success is this: Does the text free the reader? Does it contribute to our physical and emotional health? Does it put “golden tools” into our hands that can help excavate the Beloved whom we and society have buried so deep inside? Persian poets of Hafiz’s era would often address themselves in their poems, making the poem an intimate conversation. This was also a method of “signing” the poem, as one might sign a letter to a friend, or a painting. It should also be noted that sometimes Hafiz speaks as a seeker, other times as a master and guide. Hafiz also has a unique vocabulary of names for God—as one might have endearing pet names for one’s own family members. To Hafiz, God is more than just the Father, the Mother, the Infinite, or a Being beyond comprehension. Hafiz gives God a vast range of names, such as Sweet Uncle, the Generous Merchant, the Problem Giver, the Problem Solver, the Friend, the Beloved. The words Ocean, Sky, Sun, Moon, and Love, among others, when capitalized in these poems, can sometimes be synonyms for God, as it is a Hafiz trait to offer these poems to many levels of interpretation simultaneously. To Hafiz, God is Someone we can meet, enter, and eternally explore.

There is only one rule on this Wild Playground. . . . ‘Have fun, my dear; my dear, have fun.’” — HAFIZ, PERSIAN POET

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.

Are there any poets that write directly about this? Oneness is typing this, Oneness is reading this. People mention Hafiz and Rumi. Non-Duality Press publishes books of poems by Nicholas Czernin, ‘Wasteland Words’, and by John Astin, ‘This Is Always Enough’.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.” HAFIZ, 14TH-CENTURY PERSIAN POET

the God that the Sufi poet Hafiz writes about: Not the God of names, Nor the God of don’ts, Nor the God who ever does Anything weird, But the God who only knows four words And keeps repeating them, saying: “Come dance with Me.

life’s vicissitudes in the words of Hafiz, a celebrated Persian poet: “Pay no heed to the wounding thorns.