Poetry and WisdomIranian1325–1390
Never dies he whose heart is quickened by love / Our perpetuity is inscribed on the world's record
Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez Shirazi, known as Hafez, is a great Persian-language poet of the eighth century AH. His Divan includes ghazals, qasidas, and rubaiyat, and has had a profound influence on the course of Persian poetry.