Wake! For the Sun, who scatter’d into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav’n, and strikes The Sultan’s Turret with a Shaft of Light.
OMAR KHAYYAMBetter be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.
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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
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You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you’ve treasured up at home are nothing.
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Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
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But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
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Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
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How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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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.
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If I don’t enjoy myself now, when shall I?
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You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
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I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
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The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!
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