Omar Khayyam
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Medieval
influential
83 sayings
Sayings by Omar Khayyam
A Moment's Halt—a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste—And lo! the Phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from—Oh, make haste!
c. 11th-12th century
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza XLVIII
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And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One Flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.
c. 11th-12th century
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza XLVII
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Another and another Cup to drown The Memory of this Impertinence!
c. 11th-12th century
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza XXXVI (variant)
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