“For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.”

About Omar Khayyam

Poet • Persian

Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī, commonly known as Omar Khayyam, was a Persian polymath, renowned as a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. He made significant...