51 Quotes by Edward FitzGerald

There was a Door to which I found no Key: / There was a Veil past which I could not see.

Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry

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

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

This battered Caravanserai / Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day.

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

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

Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, / And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; / For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man / Is blackened. Man's Forgiveness give - and take!

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long / Have done my credit in this World much wrong: / Have drowned my Honour in a Shallow Cup / And sold my Reputation for a Song.