Hafiz
Khwaja Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Hafiz-e Shirazi
c. 1315-1390 • Persian
Sufism
Persian lyric poet whose ghazals of divine love and spiritual intoxication are recited throughout the Persian-speaking world.
Key Works
- Diwan of Hafiz
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Quotes by Hafiz
112 quotes“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”
awakeningThe Gift: Poems by Hafiz
“The Friend has marked you — that is enough.”
belongingDivan (Browne 1906)
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
unityThe Gift: Poems by Hafiz
“In the garden of the heart, plant only seeds of truth.”
truthThe Gift: Poems by Hafiz
“The wound is where God's light enters.”
healingI Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
loveThe Gift: Poems by Hafiz
“The Beloved's lane is paved with broken hearts.”
pathDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“Do not seek the because—in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, justification or excuse.”
loveThe Gift: Poems by Hafiz
“Walk it, even so — there is no other way home.”
pathDivan (Clarke 1891)
“For the burning is the prayer.”
prayerDivan (Browne 1906)
“For years my heart inquired of me where Jamshid's sacred cup might be.”
longingDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“It begged at last from me what was once its own.”
returnDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“At last my truant heart returned and I could speak the truth.”
truthDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“The pilgrim sets out from the threshold of his own house.”
journeyDivan (Clarke 1891)
“Yet his goal is in his own breast.”
interiorityDivan (Clarke 1891)
“Strange that the seeker is the sought.”
paradoxDivan (Clarke 1891)
“O cup-bearer, kindle our cup with the wine's bright fire.”
ecstasyDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“Bring wine, for the cypress with its tall figure has a graceful form indeed.”
beautyDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“Tomorrow no one knows — pour the wine today.”
presenceDivan (Bicknell 1875)
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