“I have no use for divine patience -
My lips are now burning and everywhere.
I am running from every corner of this earth and sky
Wanting to kiss you.”
― The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz
My lips are now burning and everywhere.
I am running from every corner of this earth and sky
Wanting to kiss you.”
― The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz
“I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death”
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“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”
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“I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me.”
― The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me.”
― The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz
“My dear,
Is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering
Ram
Running all through the city,
Shouting so madly inside and out
About the ten thousand things
That do not matter?”
― The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz
Is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering
Ram
Running all through the city,
Shouting so madly inside and out
About the ten thousand things
That do not matter?”
― The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz
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