Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat

Quatrains on impermanence, wine, love, and the futility of ambition

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam

Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet whose Rubaiyat quatrains, celebrating wine, roses, and present-moment pleasure in the face of mortality, became globally famous through Edward FitzGerald's Victorian translation.

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