Hafez' Page
(Calligraphies by Dr. Amir Fariborz, e-mail: fariboa@sunyit.edu)
" ... no book has been so reverenced, no poet so celebrated, and no verse
so cherished as Hafez's ghazals. Auguries from his Divan have decided the
fates of the individuals and the empires, rebels and heretics as well as
the pious have died with lines of Hafez on their lips, and religious and
philosophic arguments have been won by apt quotation of a hemistich.
Hafez sang a rare blend of human and mystic love so balanced,
proportioned, and contrived with artful ease that it is impossible to
separate the one from the other; and rhetorical artifice is so delicately
woven into the fabric of wisdom and mysticism that it imparts a freshness
to ideas ..."
--Wheeler M. Thackston
