Hafiz : Shams-ul-Din (c.1320-90), Persian mystic & poet.
... people not to report my remarks in conversation outside but how many would really observe that rule? As to the other point, you seem to me to be generalising from two lonely instances, the Hafiz letter and another about which I know nothing. Page 163 Nirod gave the letter to Nolini to get the Mother’s answer as it was She who must decide and this was a shorter route... did not seem urgent and the Mother during those days has no time for anything, Nolini postponed it till after the darshan. Therefore I am “not guilty. “ For the same reason I was postponing the Hafiz affair as I had no time to speak to the Mother and this rather eccentric gentleman and his case did not seem to me to call for haste; he did not seem to be asking for darshan but only for opportunity... she was inclined to give permission for him to come. However, if he is in sound earnest about the spiritual life and coming here, I suppose he will answer your letter in the right way. Hafiz is a different matter. The Mother was not enthusiastic about his coming here again; she did not take his apology and vehement denials at their face value and could not after what had happened in ...
... spiritual inspiration dealing with things spiritual and mystic. Well, and if a poet is a spiritual seeker what does Tagore want him to write about? Dancing girls? Amal has done that. Wine and women? Hafiz has done that. But he can only use them as symbols as a rule. Must he write about politics,—communism, for instance, like modernist poets? Why should he describe the outer aspects of world nature, বিশ্ব ...
... Bremond?" he at once replied, "Oh, I haven't heard of such a river being in Persia. None of the poets have sung of it — as, for instance, they have sung of Rooknabad. You must be familiar with your Hafiz." And he began chanting: Kinar e ab e Rooknabad, gulgushte Musullara. I was a little puzzled, then I realised that a b in Persian means "water" and "Abbe Bremond" sounded similar to "Ab ...
... birthday brought memories of his grandfather and the Persian poets whose work had delighted him in his earliest years, and with them reflections on the immortality of art. He speaks of Ferdausi and Hafiz and Saadi "a few echoes of which are still intoxicating to my mind". And he quotes "a famous vaunt" in which Ferdausi forsees the verdict of the future on his work: The homes that are the dwellings ...
... writing letter after letter. No, Dilip, let's talk of something more worth while. What have you been writing of late?" "I have been translating some poems. Here is one from a Hindi song of Abul Hafiz Jalandhari. 1 Sri Aurobindo has given it special praise." He read it and suggested just one or two minor changes; then said: "You have now learnt to handle our iambics, Dilip. Congratulations." ...
... Returned to India and went on a tour studying Indian music from classical masters like Abdul Karim, Faiz Khan, Chandan Chaube, Pandit Bhatkhande, Gaurishankar Mishra, Surendranath Majumdar, Hafiz Ali Khan and others. Wrote a book in Bengali on Indian music, Bhramyamaner Dina Panjika (Diary of a Musical Rover) which won him instant fame in Bengal. 1922 Met Ronald Nixon, a ...
... see, I'm in a poetic mood. Poets love beauty and delight. Wherever there is no delight, no beauty, poets cannot be there, according to Nirod. I suppose you know that. I think it was the great poet Hafiz - ever heard his name ? He was a Sufi poet, Persian poet -who said that for the sake of the mole on the cheek of his beloved, he could fling away Samarkand and Bokhara - he was such a spendthrift ...
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