Taste is the feminine of genius.
Edward FitzGerald Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 31st March, 1809 |
| Death: | 14th June, 1883 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet, Writer |
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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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