A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore.

Quote by Hafiz Of Persia

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I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing...

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing...

Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret'

Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret'

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits...

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits...

Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land...

Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land...

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after...

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after...

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a...

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a...

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the...

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the...

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and...

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and...

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

The crown of literature is poetry.

The crown of literature is poetry.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the...

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the...

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as...

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood...

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the...

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the...