Edward Fitzgerald

1809 - 1883

A Quote by Edward Fitzgerald

A moment's halt - a momentary taste Of being from the well amid the waste -  And lo - the phantom caravan has reached The nothing it set out from - oh, make haste!

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)

Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)

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A Quote by Edward Fitzgerald on books, paradise, wilderness, and wine

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A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise now!

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)

Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)

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A Quote by Edward Fitzgerald

Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)

Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)

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A Quote by Edward Fitzgerald on youth

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Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)

Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)

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A Quote by Edward Fitzgerald on solitude and soul

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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)

Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)

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A Quote by Edward Fitzgerald on death

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Striking from the Calendar Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday.

Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)

Source: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Persian writer & astronomer (c.1050–c.1123)

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