- Poet | May 18, 1048 - December 4, 1131
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
LifeHappinessMomentHappyBe Happy
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
SoulSolitudeThoughtfulRetires
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
FlowerForeverOnceBlownDies
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
WineBreadThouJugLoaf
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
DoorKeyVeilSeeThroughFound
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Moving OnMovingWitLineHalfThy
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
TodayTomorrowLookBackUnderstand
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
YouGoKnowWhyDrinkWhere
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.
SnowHopeMenDesertFaceGone
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.
MarriageDaughterBraveFriendsYou
A hair divides what is false and true.
HairTrueFalseDivides
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.
GreatMyselfDoorDoctorYoungOut
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