Omar Khayyam — "The heavens are but a turning wheel, and we are like grains of sand upon it."
The heavens are but a turning wheel, and we are like grains of sand upon it.
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"And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again."
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness – Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"
"And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel, And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour—well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell."
"Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."
"Look to the Rose that blows about us—'Lo, Laughing,' she says, 'into the World I blow, At once the silken Tassel of my Purse Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw.'"
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Rubaiyat (common theme, exact phrasing can vary by translation)
Date: c. 11th-12th Century
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