Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
OMAR KHAYYAMI wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.
More Omar Khayyam Quotes
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To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.
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Here’s to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.
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The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.
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Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
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Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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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.
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The Revelations of Devout and Learn’d Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn’d, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return’d.
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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 return’d to me, And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell.
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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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Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.
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Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
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Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
OMAR KHAYYAM