The love poems of the great Persian poet Hafiz are among the most beautiful in world literature; they served as an inspiration for Goethe's West-Eastern Divan. Hafiz's verses are multi-layered, full of grace and vitality. They celebrate the beauty of nature, love for women and boys, wine, song, and dance, and unite the profane and the sacred, sensuality and spirit, earthly and heavenly love. The sensitive translations by Cyrus Atabay reveal the diversity of this world and bring this great 14th-century classic closer to today's readers.