Edward FitzGerald Quotes

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'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days
Where Destiny with Men for pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the closet lays.

Edward FitzGerald

Ah, fill the cup:—what boots it to repeat
How time is slipping underneath our feet:
Unborn tomorrow, and dead yesterday,
Why fret about them if today be sweet!

Edward FitzGerald

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

Striking from the Calendar Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday.

Edward FitzGerald

Ah, take the cash in hand and waive the rest;
Oh, the brave music of a distant drum!

Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald

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Born: March 31, 1809

Died: June 14, 1883 (aged 74)

Bio: Edward FitzGerald 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. The writing of his name as both FitzGerald and Fitzgerald is seen.

Known for:

Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1830)
Come Fill the Cup [sound Recording]
Polonius (1852)

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