Attribuée à Hafez
«Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.»
Fausse attribution
Verdict
Elle ne figure pas dans l'œuvre de Hafez
A poem by Daniel Ladinsky in *The Gift* (1999), circulated as Hafez's. Omid Safi cites it as an example of 'fake Hafez': it corresponds to no Persian ghazal. Text under its author's copyright; quoted briefly for identification.
Source: Safi, Omid. «Fake Hafez: How a supreme Persian poet of love was erased». Al Jazeera, 14-06-2020.
Ce qu'il a vraiment dit
Paroles vérifiées de 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.