Omar Khayyam — "Let us drink wine, for it is the life of eternity, and the joy of youth, and the…"

"Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness—And Wilderness is Paradise enow."

"Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."

"Better to be intoxicated with wine than with the vain hopes of this world."

"Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And in a winding-sheet of Vine-leaf wrapt, So bury me by some sweet Garden-side."

"And that inverted Bowl we call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help – for It As impotently moves as you or I."