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.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
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.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza XLVII
c. 11th-12th century
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