30 Quotes & Sayings By Omar Khayyam

He was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. He is most famous as a mathematician for his treatise Algebra and as a poet for his quatrains. His quatrains are considered to be among the finest examples of the poetry of the Persian language. He also wrote a treatise on algebra Read more

Khayyam also wrote a treatise on music and produced an astronomical treatise. Khayyam was also an avid astronomer, and he wrote the treatise "The Succession of Stars" (known in English as The Moving Universe). He was born in 1048 in Seljuq Turkestan (modern day Turkmenistan).

He died in 1131 in Herat, Afghanistan.

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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 where in I went. Omar Khayyam
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Ah take the cash and let the credit go. Omar Khayyam
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Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. Omar Khayyam
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Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mold it nearer to the heart's desire! Omar Khayyam
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where. Omar Khayyam
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The Moving Finger writes and having writ Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayyam
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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head. Omar Khayyam
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One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. Omar Khayyam
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There was the Door to which I found no key There was the Veil through which I might not see. Omar Khayyam
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Dust into dust and under dust to lie Sans wine sans song sans singer and - sans end. Omar Khayyam
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Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire. Omar Khayyam
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Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits - and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire? Omar Khayyam
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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. Omar Khayyam
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Ah take the Cash and let the Credit go Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! Omar Khayyam
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There was the door to which I found no key There was the veil through which 1 might not see. Omar Khayyam
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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! Omar Khayyam
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All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot? Omar Khayyam
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You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house Divorced old barren reason from my bed And took the daughter of the vine to spouse. Omar Khayyam
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0 thou who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh and then impute my fall to sin. Omar Khayyam
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I. Omar Khayyam
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The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires. Omar Khayyam
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible Some letter of that After-life to spell And by and by my Soul returned to me And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell." Omar Khayyam
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Yet Ah that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again who knows? Omar Khayyam
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The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing. Omar Khayyam
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Tomorrow! - Why tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years. Omar Khayyam
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone. Omar Khayyam
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. Omar Khayyam
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. Omar Khayyam