“Indeed the idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this world much wrong; have drowned my glory in a shallow cup, and sold my reputation for a song.”

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...