The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)
poetry · Item 157
A reason to turn the page
A single flash of the True Light caught in a tavern is worth a temple's years of loss—where would you look for truth?
Discovery 1 of 15And this I know: whether the one True Light, Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.