"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

January 1, 1970

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Poets from PersiaPeople from ShirazPersian literatureSufi poets14th-century Persian poets
Original Language: English

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From Daniel Ladinsky, The Gift: Poems by Hafiz (1999), p. 34. This is not a translation or interpretation of any poem by Hafez; it is an original poem by Ladinsky inspired by the spirit of Hafez in a dream.