
The Rubaiyat (1120)
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."
FitzGerald's first edition (1859).
The Rubaiyat (1120)
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.”
As quoted in Sacred Seasonings (2003) by Sherri Purdom
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
Speech to Chamber of Deputies (9 December 1928), quoted in Propaganda and Dictatorship (2007) by Marx Fritz Morstein, p. 48
1920s
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
Source: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 2, sect. 3