Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyám ; born Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu'l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī, was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet, who is widely considered to be one of the most influential scientists of the Middle Ages. He wrote numerous treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy and astronomy...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 May 1048
wine half stuff
I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.
blessed sadness wine
I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!
wine men land
Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.
regret wine past
Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
wine bread jugs
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
atheist prayer wine
How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar. When once you hear the roses are in bloom, Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine; Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell- These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.
wine giving rose
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.
believe doomed drink drunkards empty entrance foolish good hand heaven love men none
Drunkards are doomed to hell, so men declare, Believe it not, 'tis but a foolish scare; Heaven will be empty as this hand of mine, If none who love good drink find entrance there
absolutely bowls daughter divorce reason tonight vine wife
Tonight I will make a tun of wine, Set myself up with two bowls of it; First I will divorce absolutely reason and religion, Then take to wife the daughter of the vine
closet days destiny mates men nights pieces
'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
american-director cancel finger half line lure moves moving nor piety shall tears thy wash wit word
The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
ah descend dust
Ah make the most of what yet we may spend,Before we too into dust descend
bowl call crawling hands help lift rolls thou thy
And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.
american-director came nor
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.