Edward FitzGerald Quotes

• Taste is the feminine of genius.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• And when Thyself with shining foot shall pass Among the guests star-scattered on the grass, And in thy joyous errand reach the spot Where I made one—turn down an empty glass!

  Edward FitzGerald

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• Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a book of verse—and Thou Beside me singing in the wilderness— And wilderness is paradise enow.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• Awake! for Morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan’s turret in a noose of light.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

  Edward FitzGerald

  Topics in God

  Tags in Self, Believe

• I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

  Edward FitzGerald

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  Tags in Book, Comparison, Wine

• I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• I am all for the short and merry life.

  Edward FitzGerald

  Topics in Life

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• The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

  Edward FitzGerald

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Comparison

• Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were – Tomorrow you shall not be less.

  Edward FitzGerald

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• Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass’d the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

  Edward FitzGerald

• I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

  Edward FitzGerald

• And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

  Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald (18)

Birth:	31st March, 1809
Death:	14th June, 1883
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet, Writer

About

Edward Marlborough FitzGerald was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. He was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He was educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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