Sublime

“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.” Omar Khayyam the poet, astronomer, astrologer, physician, philosopher and mathematician

Wonderful bread – 24 sayings about our favourite staple food -

Four lines from Omar Khayyam: The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on. Nor all your piety and wit Can call it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

Lawrence Block • Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder Book 2)

I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith—no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of intoxication, that alone. —OMAR KHAYYAM