Author: Omar Khayyam

Cites

• Matthew Arnold (1)
  • IN: The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam (1859) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ............. "A mind Not wholly clear, nor wholly blind. Too keen to rest, too weak to find, That travails sore, and brings forth wind."
    FROM: A Nameless Epitaph, (1867), Poem, NULL

Cited by

• Sybill Marshall (1)
  • IN: The Chequer-Board (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis all a Chequer-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.
    FROM: The Rubáiyát, (1859), Poem, Persia
• Tom McCarthy (1)
  • IN: C (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend, ourselves to make a Couch - for whom?
    FROM: The Rubaiyat, (1120), Poem, Persia
• Yasmina Khadra (1)
  • IN: The Dictator's Last Night (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If you desire to move towards lasting peace Smile at the destiny that strikes you down and strike no one.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Persia
• Swee Hoon Wong (1)
  • IN: The Phoenix and Other Stories (1985) Fiction, Anthology, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly -- and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
    FROM: Rubaiyat (Fitzgerald trans.), (1859), Book, Iran
• Sarah Pinborough (1)
  • IN: The Death House (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
    FROM: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, (1859), Book, Persia
• Peter May (2)
  • IN: Runaway (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 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.
    FROM: The Rubaiyat, (1859), Book, Iran
  • IN: The Chess Men (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis all a Chequer-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.
    FROM: The Rubaiyat, (1859), Book, Iran
• Kelly Braffet (1)
  • IN: Save Yourself (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men talk of heaven, --- there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, -- there is no hell but here...
    FROM: Rubáiyát, (1859), Poem, Iran (Persia)