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Daqiqi Quotes

930–977 Iran

Abu Mansur Daqiqi (c. 935 — 977) was one of the most prominent Persian poets of the Samanid era.

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Daqiqi has chosen four qualities of all good and evil things in the world:
Ruby-colored lips and the sound of the lute.
Old red wine and the Zoroastrian religion!

Choice wine, whose bitter strength can sweeten best
The embittered mind, and flood
The air with colour, as when goshawk's breast
Is dyed with pheasant's blood

A composite whose body is of light,
But all its soul and spirit of fiery strain;
A star that hath its setting in the mouth,
But ever rises on the cheeks again

To ward the kingdom, Fortune took thy sword,
And beauty chose thy hand, herself to word.
In Heaven for thy decree Fate listening stands,
The dinar from its ore sets out to win thy hands.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daqiqi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.