"Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, Why not find a better job?"

"I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music."

"Saki! with the light of wine, up-kindle the cup of ours. Minstrel! speak, saying: The worlds work hath gone to the desire of ours."

"The tavern is my Kaaba; the wine-cup is my prayer-niche."

"If that Shirazi Turk would take my heart in hand, I would remit for the Hindu's idol-temple Samarkand."