Sprituality &Sufi Insight Entropy | 25 Nov 2007
The Moving Finger writes..
Perhaps the most celebrated verse of Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat,
Which is effortless and sincere, which expresses the reality and consequences of life.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it
on 27 Nov 2007 at 3:41 am 1.michele roohani said …
khayyam was first and foremost a mathematician (http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt669/Student.Folders/Jones.June/omar/omarpaper.html), a scientist, an astronomer (http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/islam/learning/khayyam.html) and a philosopher. Being a poet (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/246) was the last and least important of his accolades but i guess only matters of heart (his poetry) can survive ten centuries…
It’s early dawn, my love, open your eyes and arise
Gently imbibing and playing the lyre;
For those who are here will not tarry long,
And those who are gone will not return.