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1 " True art awakens theExtraordinaryOvation "
― Hafez , The Gift
2 " Art is the conversation between lovers. Art offers an opening for the heart. True art makes the divine silence in the soul Break into applause. "
3 " The Earth would dieIf the sun stopped kissing her. "
4 " The heart is aThe thousand-stringed instrumentThat can only be tuned withLove. "
5 " Listen: this world is the lunatic's sphere,Don't always agree it's real,Even with my feet upon itAnd the postman knowing my doorMy address is somewhere else. "
6 " Let's get looseWithCompassion,Let's drown in the deliciousAmbience ofLove. "
7 " Sometimes I say to a poem,"I don't have the strengthTo wring out another dropOf the sun."And the poem will oftenRespondBy climbing onto a barroom table:Then lifts its skirt, winks,Causing the whole sky toFall. "
8 " All your wounds from craving loveExist because of heroic deeds. "
9 " Not loving is a letting go.Listen,The terrain around hereIsFar tooDangerousFor That. "
10 " Lean your sweet neck and mouthOut of that dark nest where you hide,I will pour effulgence into your mind. "
11 " There areSo many positions of Love:Each curve on a branch,The thousand different waysYour eyes can embrace us,The infinite shapes yourMind can draw,The spring Orchestra of scents,The currents of light combustingLike passionate lips,The revolution of Existence's skirtWhose folds contain other worlds.Your every sigh that falls againstHis inconceivableOmnipresentBody. "
12 " LoversDon't tell all of theirSecrets.They mightCount each other's molesThat reside in the shyRegions,Then keep that tally strictlyTo themselves.God and IHave signe a contractTo be even more intimate thanThat!Though a clauseMentionsSomething about not drawing detailed mapsTo all His beautifulLaughing Moles. "
13 " Love isThe funeral pyreWhere I have laid my living body.All the false notions of myselfThat once caused fear, pain,Have turned to ashAs I neared God.What has risenFrom the tangled web of thought and sinewNow shines with jubilationThrough the eyes of angelsAnd screams from the guts of Infinite existenceItself.Love is the funeral pyreWhere the heart must layIts body. "
14 " I am a hole in the flute that the Christ's breath moves through listen to this musicI am the concert from the mouth of every creaturesinging with the myriad chorusQuote by Hafiz "
15 " This skyWhere we liveIs no place to lose your wingsSo love, loveLove. "
16 " WhyJust ask the donkey in meTo speak to the donkey in you,When I have so many other beautiful animalsAnd brilliant colored birds insideThat are longing to say something wonderfulAnd exciting to your heart?Let's open all the locked doors upon our eyesThat keep us from knowing the IntelligenceThat begets loveAnd a more lively and satisfying conversationWith the Friend.Let's turn loose our golden falconsSo that they can meet in the skyWhere our spirits belong--Necking like twoHot kids.Let's hold hands and get drunk near the sunAnd sing sweet songs to GodUntil He joins us with a few notesFrom his own sublime lute and drum.If you have a better ideaOf how to pass a lonely nightAfter your glands may have performedAll their little magicThen speak up sweethearts, speak up,For Hafiz and all the world will listen.Why just bring your donkey to meAsking for stale hayAnd a boring conference with the idiotIn regards to this precious matter--Such a precious matter as love,When I have so many other divine animalsAnd brilliant colored birds insideThat are all longingTo so sweetlyGreetYou! "
17 " For we have not come here to take prisoners Or to confine our wondrous spirits, But to experience ever and ever more deeply Our divine courage, freedom, and Light! "
18 " তারপর ও, এতো বহু হাজার বছর পরেও, সূর্য কখনো চাঁদকে বলে না, ‘তোমার রুপে্রছটা তো আমারই দান'। সত্যিকারের ভালবাসা তো এমনই হয়, ভালবাসার আলোয় সারা আকাশ ভেসে যায়।translated by - Professon Khair Jahan Sogra, IBA, University of Dhaka "
19 " The tide of my love has risen so high let me flood over you. "
20 " What is the key To untie the knot of the mind’s suffering? Benevolent thought, sound And movement. "