Attributed to Hafez
«Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.»
Misattributed
Verdict
It is not in Hafez's work
A line by Daniel Ladinsky that Omid Safi identifies among the 'Hafez' quotes with no Persian original.
Source: Safi, Omid. «Fake Hafez: How a supreme Persian poet of love was erased». Al Jazeera, 14-06-2020.
What they did say
Verified words of Hafez
«Arise, oh Cup-bearer, rise! and bring / To lips that are thirsting the bowl they praise, / For it seemed that love was an easy thing, / But my feet have fallen on difficult ways.»
Diván, gazal 1, v. 1 (Qazvini-Ghani; texto persa según Ganjoor); trad. inglesa de Gertrude Bell (1897), poema I; trad. española propia. El primer hemistiquio es árabe.
«Oh Turkish maid of Shiraz! in thy hand / If thou'lt take my heart, for the mole on thy cheek / I would barter Bokhara and Samarkand.»
Diván, gazal 3, v. 1 (Qazvini-Ghani); trad. inglesa de Bell (1897), poema V; trad. española propia.
«The song is sung and the pearl is strung; / Come hither, oh Hafiz, and sing again! / And the listening Heavens above thee hung / Shall loose o'er thy verse the Pleiades' chain.»
Diván, gazal 3, último dístico (Qazvini-Ghani); trad. inglesa de Bell (1897), poema V; trad. española propia.