This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Persian Poet, Mathematician, Polymath and Astronomer who also wrote treatises on Mechanics, Geography, Mineralogy, Music, Climatology and Theology
"For some we loved, the loveliest and the best that from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, and one by one crept silently to rest."
"Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There."
"From dwellings disbelief only one moment for knowledge of the vertices. And from darkness to light doubts confidence only one moment. Enjoy the same sweetness, brief life joy in passing hour. Life entire value - just a whiff just a moment for us."
"From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; from the world of doubt to certainty is a single breath; enjoy this precious single breath, for the harvest of our whole lives is that same one breath."
"Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom."
"For is and is-not though with rule and line and up and down by logic I define, of all that one should care to fathom, was never deep in anything but ? wine."
"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."
"God, you have paved our path with a thousand invisible stumbling stones and you have said: woe betide those that stumble! You see all and you know all. Nothing happens without your consent, so how can you hold us responsible for our failures? Can you blame me that I object to this?"
"God is great! That shout from the mosque seems like a grand lamentation. Five times a day the earth seems to groan against its indifferent creator!"
"He welcome you drink wine from a month; the welcome meeting as being the sequel is not as if they're not welcome."
"Happy Hour is to say those garden with grape juice is good I say take the cash and the credit abhorrence hear the distant drum is good."
"Happy is the one who never saw this world."
"Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes kindle a flame of love that never dies; and beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, offer themselves a burning sacrifice."
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
"Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it."
"Heaven and Hell are in with yourself."
"Hey, what is this the same sorrow and chagrin has signed a sin and lost caution you tasted sweet, but pardon the sins and God pardoned and forgiven."
"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."
"How oft hereafter rising look for us through this same Garden ? and for one in vain!"
"How often in life when you make mistakes. Lose those who cherish. Strangers like trying. Sometimes in the middle run. Pray that those who we should not. And the most faithful betraying. The fact is, who left us, we again go for help."
"His senior minds of the people and leave the ignorant people of curiosity and drink infusion of poison sane and pour on the ground Aljhol medicine"
"How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?"
"How sweet is mortal sovereignty!?think some: Others?How blest the Paradise to come! Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!"
"I came to sage and asked him: "What is love? He said, "Nothing." But, I know a lot of books written: Eternity write one, and others - that moment that darkened by fire, then melt like snow, what is love? "It's a man!" And then I looked him straight in the face, how you understand me? "All or Nothing?" He said smiling: "You yourself gave the answer!: "All or nothing" - there is no middle!""
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
"I do not want the scepter of the ruler nor the staff of the high priest! Give me just a simple stick and pad far reaching infinity!"
"I disapprove of the vain and the religious. Who can affirm whether you will go to Heaven or Hell? besides, what do those words mean? Do you know any traveler who has been there?"
"I cannot live without a genuine lack of wine take once I blow into the butler tells me that I cannot get a cup again"
"I do remember stopping by the way, To watch a potter thumping his wet clay; And with its all-obliterated tongue It murmured, ?Gently, brother, gently, pray!?"
"I drink wine because it is my solace;"
"I hide my distress, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and your indifference to my sadness, my loved-one!"
"I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth."
"I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love."
"I see a horseman disappearing into the evening mist. Will he travel through woods or across wild plains? Where is he heading? I don't know. Tomorrow, will I be stretched out above or below the earth? I don't know."
"I know this kind of pompous asses: as empty as a drum, and how many big words! They - slaves names. Compose yourself a name, and crawl before you any of them ready."
"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."
"I value the lover's sighs of happiness and I despise the hypocrite mumbling his prayers."
"I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must, scared by some After-reckoning ta'en on trust, or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink, to fill the Cup ? when crumbled into Dust!"
"I took a test on the cheap from the market; told me what hidden secret, a ?AHDER, I said; I had the gold trophy; now what? I've been testing wine."
"I was in the shower Kargúh potter saw two thousand pots and silent expressive language each time they told me where pottery jars and jars purchase and sale."
"I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell."
"I wish that you would rather sleep or it goes away you will reach one hundred thousand years following the wish of the soil as the grass, hoping to inspire you."
"If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I?"
"In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls."
"I'm drinking wine, is correct. Justified in their right mind would find me. internal I knew that God. Interior would be if I was wrong God."
"If you want to listen to me, I give you this advice: for the love of God, do not clothe you with the robe of hypocrisy. 's future life is always, this world is a moment , do not you sell kingdom of eternity for one second."
"If with wine you are drunk be happy, If seated with a moon-faced (beautiful), be happy, Since the end purpose of the universe is nothing-ness; Hence picture your nothing-ness, then while you are, be happy!"
"In one window watching the two. One saw the rain and mud. Other - green foliage ligature, Spring and the sky is blue."
"Indeed the Idols I have loved so long have done my credit in this World much wrong: have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup and sold my Reputation for a Song."
"Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore ? but was I sober when I swore? And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand my thread-bare Penitence apieces tore."