Oh my dear, how can I speak of being apart from you?
The eyes know a hundred tears, and the soul has a hundred sighs.
I’d not have an infidel suffer the torment your beauty has caused
To the cypress which envies your body, and the moon that’s outshone by your face.
translated by Peter Avery & John Heath-Stubbs
I have asked the eye of my heart: what is the use of all this worrying?
So don’t waste your time trying to fill your cup with water
When you know that there is nothing in this well but wind.
O Hafiz, in this desert, you have fallen victim to your own illusions.
When was a pilgrim’s thirst ever quenched by a mirage?
translated by Thomas Rain Crowe
With this burning heart, how can I tell you what I see?
Go ask my tears, for they are honest and without sin.
translated by Thomas Rain Crowe
There where the work of the Muslim cloister
Is celebrated, one finds as well the bell
Of the monk’s cell and the name of the Cross.
Although the way station you want to reach
Is dangerous and the goal distant, do not
Sink into sadness: all roads have an end.
translated by Robert Bly
Almost nowhere now do they appreciate the art of poetry and spiritual talk.
Hafiz says, Don’t worry, to somewhere else that is rich in freedom we will go.
translated by Thomas Rain Crowe
“No one knows in which shell the priceless pearl does hide.”
translated by Thomas Rain Crowe
Winebringer, more wine! Bring me some of that strong wine that no one else
Can drink. I want to become unconscious and free of this world for a while.
I know that there’s no safety from the perils of the sky,
With the siren harp of Venus and the bloody sword of Mars.
In this age of meanness and deceit, at the world’s table,
There is no place for joy. And the food is prepared with too much salt.
So drink wine and wash your palate, so your greedy thirst will go away.
translated by Thomas Rain Crowe
Being Present for the Moment
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Singer, Songwriter and Author from Kyoto, Japan.
Singer, Songwriter and Author from Kyoto, Japan.
An online activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina, based in Sarajevo, standing on the right side of the history - for free Palestine.
A place where I post unscripted, unedited, soulless rants of a insomniac madman
Dennis Mantin is a Toronto-based writer, artist, and filmmaker.
Finding Inspiration
Off the wall, under the freeway, over the rainbow, nothin' but net.
Erm, what am I doing with my life?
Artist by choice, photographer by default, poet by accident.
At Least Trying Too
A Journey of Spiritual Significance
Life in islamic point of view
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L'essenziale è invisibile e agli occhi e al cuore. Beccarlo è pura questione di culo
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