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• O love, could thou and I with fate conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Might we not smash it to bits And mould it closer to our hearts' desire?
  -- Omar Khayyam, tr. FitzGerald...
• And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently rolls as you or I.
  -- Omar Khayyam/Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiya...
• Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire.
  -- Omar Khayyam (died c.1133) -- Rubaiyat, Stanza lxvii...
• And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in your blissful errand reach the spot Where I made One--turn down an empty Glass.
  -- Omar Khayyam (died c.1133) -- Rubaiyat, Stanza ci...
• These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moo
  The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread....
• And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.
  -- Omar Khayyam (died c.1133) -- Rubaiyat, Stanza lxxvii...
• Please stand for the Nation Anthem: O Canada Our home and native land True patriot love In all thy sons' command With glowing hearts we see thee rise The true north strong and free From far and wide
  O Canada We stand on guard for thee God keep our land glorious and free O Canada we stand on guard for thee O Canada we stand on guard for thee Thank you....
• Hope! thou nurse of young desire. -- Isaac Bickerstaff (1735-1787) -- Love in a Village, Act i, Sc.
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• Love is not in our choice, but in our fate. -- Dryde