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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

I would not change the song the flute-girl sings
For all the diadems of weary kings,
   His joys the Sultan shares with all the world,
His cares he keeps — a chain of glittering rings.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 201

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

I would not change the song the flute-girl sings
For all the diadems of weary kings,
   His joys the Sultan shares with all the world,
His cares he keeps — a chain of glittering rings.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 201

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77973/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #rubaiyat #omarkhayyam #cares #contentment #powerful #riches #satisfaction #simplicity #wealth #weariness

A quotation from Omar Khayyam

I would not change the song the flute-girl sings
For all the diadems of weary kings,
   His joys the Sultan shares with all the world,
His cares he keeps — a chain of glittering rings.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 201

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77973/

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

But thou who settest in the way a snare,
With threats of hell for all who stumble there,
   Almighty Spirit, whom the spheres obey,
Is mine the sin, or Thine the greater share?

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 148 [tr. Roe (1906), # 73]

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

We dabble in the Qur’án now and then,
Read, and repent, yet fall from Grace again;
But in the goblet is engraved a text
That greets eternally the eyes of men.
 
قرآن که بهین کلام خوانند اورا
گه گاه نه بر دوام خوانند اورا
در خطِ پیاله آیتی روشن هست
کاندر همه جا مدام خوانند اورا

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 6 [tr. Talbot (1908)]

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

If I were God, I would not wait the years
To solve the mystery of human tears;
   And, unambiguous, I would speak my will,
Nor hint it darkly to the dreaming seers.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات ][tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 116]

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

Go to! Cast dust on those deaf skies, who spurn
Thy orisons and bootless prayers, and learn
   To quaff the cup, and hover round the fair;
Of all who go, did ever one return?

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 97 [tr. Whinfield (1883), # 267]

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass’d the door of Darkness through
   Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Fitz. # 67 [tr. FitzGerald, 2nd ed. (1868)]

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I love #Nico as much as anybody but my favorite version of Jackson Browne’s “These Days” is by 10,000 Maniacs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vjeGwxAak

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