Ladinsky-Hafez

Tomb of Hafez

What do sad people have in common?
It seems they have all built a shrine to the past

And often go there and do a strange wail and worship.

What is the beginning of happiness?
It is to stop being so religious

Like that.

from The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky (1999), 119 (slightly modified).