Edward Fitzgerald Quotes

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. - Edward Fitzgerald

Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? - Edward Fitzgerald

To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years. - Edward Fitzgerald

This battered Caravanserai / Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day. - Edward Fitzgerald

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less. - Edward Fitzgerald

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see. - Edward Fitzgerald

There was a Door to which I found no Key: / There was a Veil past which I could not see. - Edward Fitzgerald

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. - 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

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