The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
by Robert Bly, Leonard LewisohnSign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
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Read in March, 2008
"The name of Hafez has been well inscribed in the books,
But in our clan of disreputables, the difference
Between profit and loss is not all that great."
One can not overemphasize the importance of Hafez. This translation is amazing and powerful, and like the great mystic poets of past centuries it is open to everyone who studies the esoteric path. Similar to Ikkyu and Ryokan, celebrating the wild and untamed aspect of ourselves beyond Ego and convention, Hafez is an amazing voi...more
But in our clan of disreputables, the difference
Between profit and loss is not all that great."
One can not overemphasize the importance of Hafez. This translation is amazing and powerful, and like the great mystic poets of past centuries it is open to everyone who studies the esoteric path. Similar to Ikkyu and Ryokan, celebrating the wild and untamed aspect of ourselves beyond Ego and convention, Hafez is an amazing voi...more
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What a find! A little riskier than Rumi, this sufi poet fills his senses with this fleeting world--tastes the wine, tastes the girl.
"The holy court of love is a thousand times higher
Than the house of reason. Only a man who holds his soul
Lightly on his sleeve can kiss the threshold of that court."
"The holy court of love is a thousand times higher
Than the house of reason. Only a man who holds his soul
Lightly on his sleeve can kiss the threshold of that court."
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love hafez- i thought it was hafiz? anyway. bliss and brillance in his incredibly spacious spiritual understanding- hafez is no one, everyone, god...
his thinking is intoxicating...
his thinking is intoxicating...
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