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
115
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Quotes by Hafiz
115 quotes“In the school of love, the Beloved is teacher and lesson both.”
loveDivan (Clarke 1891)
“Where the Friend looks, there grows a garden.”
graceDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“O lover, mistake not the candle for the moth.”
discernmentDivan (Clarke 1891)
“Burn — and you will know the difference.”
experienceDivan (Browne 1906)
“Hafiz, when love speaks, the philosopher falls silent.”
loveDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“Let the harp be tuned to the cry of separation, and the song will draw the Beloved near.”
longingDivan (Clarke 1891)
“The Friend's beauty needs no ornament.”
beautyDivan (Clarke 1891)
“My eye saw the Beloved once — and is forever dazzled.”
visionDivan (Browne 1906)
“In the desert of the world, a single dew-drop of love is enough.”
sufficiencyDivan (Clarke 1891)
“The lover has no other faith but the Friend.”
devotionDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“Sweep your heart's threshold — the Friend may visit at any hour.”
readinessDivan (Clarke 1891)
“He arrives without footsteps and departs without trace.”
mysteryDivan (Browne 1906)
“Hafiz, the Friend's name is medicine for every wound.”
healingDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“In the lover's language, sigh and song are one.”
longingDivan (Clarke 1891)
“Hafiz' silence is louder than the world's babble.”
silenceDivan (Browne 1906)
“The pen of love writes only on the heart.”
loveDivan (Clarke 1891)
“All the books are footnotes to one verse: be the Beloved's.”
essenceDivan (Clarke 1891)
“O wine, you are the lamp of the lover's night.”
lightDivan (Bicknell 1875)
“Hafiz, do not number the lover's tears — they are pearls in heaven's count.”
alchemyDivan (Clarke 1891)
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