The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)
poetry · Item 436
A reason to turn the page
Like twin compasses—one foot fixed, one circling—what truly moves you: your own will or the pull of another?
Discovery 2 of 15If we be two, we two are so As stiff twin-compasses are two; Thy Soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do.