Hafez

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born

December 24, 1325 in شیراز / Shirâz, Iran

died

December 24, 1389

gender

male

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Poetry

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Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī, or simply Hāfez (Persian: خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), was a Persian mystic and poet. He was born sometime between the years 1310 and 1337. John Payne, who has translated the Diwan Hafez, regards Hafez as one of the three greatest poets of the world. His lyrical poems, known as ghazals, are noted for their beauty and bring to fruition the love, mysticism, and early Sufi themes that had long pervaded Persian poetry. Moreover, his poetry possesses elements of modern surrealism.

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Average rating: 4.57 · 4,816 ratings · 411 reviews · 34 distinct works

	The Gift by Hafez, حافظ (a.k.a.), Daniel Ladinsky (Translator) 4.57 avg rating — 1,448 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Divan by Hafez, حافظ (a.k.a.) 4.66 avg rating — 2,385 ratings — published 1367 — 58 editions	My rating:
	The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz by Hafez, حافظ (a.k.a.), Daniel Ladinsky (Translator) 4.49 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy by Hafez, حافظ (a.k.a.), Daniel Ladinsky (Translator) 4.48 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	حافظِ شیراز به‌روایتِ احمد شاملو by Hafez, حافظ (a.k.a.), احمد شاملو (Editor) 3.76 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1975	My rating:
	The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez by Hafez, Leonard Lewisohn, Robert Bly 4.27 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	My rating:
	حافظ به سعی سایه by Hafez, هوشنگ ابتهاج ه.ا. سایه (تحقیق و گردآوری) 4.61 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Gift, The 4.69 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: Poems of Hafiz by Hafez, حافظ (a.k.a.), Thomas Rain Crowe (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	A Year with Hafiz: Daily Contemplations by Hafez, Daniel Ladinsky (Introduction) 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― Hafez

tags: life , love , sky , sun

448 people liked it

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
― Hafez

234 people liked it

“The
Earth would die
If the sun stopped kissing her.”
― Hafez, The Gift

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137 people liked it

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