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Quotes from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyám

1048–1131 Iran

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When you and I behind the Veil are past.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)

All this of Pot and Potter—Tell me then,
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)

And fear not lest Existence closing your
Account should lose or know the type no more:
The Eternal Sáki from that Bowl has poured
Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)

You know how little while we have to stay,
And, once departed, may return no more.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)

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.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)

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.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)

Think, in this battered Caravanserai,
Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultán after Sultán with his Pomp
Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)

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