“The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,
That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.”

— Hafez

Source: Odes, CXLIII, in Hafiz of Shiraz: Selections from his Poems, translated from the Persian, by Herman Bicknell (1875), p. 197; quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 59

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“The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,
That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.”