Omar Khayyam — "The Potter's Circle, where the pots are made, and broken, and made again, is the…"

"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!"

"Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went."

"With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd—'I came like Water, and like Wind I go.'"

"Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!"

"Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but was I sober when I swore?"