Hafez: Sir William Jones , A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771) · Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiati

Sir William Jones , A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771) · Poems, Consisting — Hafez

Sir William Jones , A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771) · Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages

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Slight me not zealot, go thou hence ashamed For naught is slight that has by God — Hafez
Thy curl is ever drawing the heart silently Who hath power to speak (quarrel) wi — Hafez
Reckon as plunder the path of profligacy. For this track Like the path to the hi — Hafez
Aloud I say it and with heart of glee, ‘Love’s slave am I and from both worlds a — Hafez
Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’a — Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is the mysticism of mankind . — Henry David Thoreau
There are two men inside the artist , the poet and the craftsman. One is born a — Émile Zola
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manusc — Omar Khayyám
A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity. — Napoleon
All religions are more or less mixed with superstitions. Man is not reasonable e — Voltaire
Socrates … said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine — Thomas Mann
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of — Sigmund Freud