" The titles of Rex Stout's first Nero Wolfe novel—
The author says of his scientific work, "'Twas only striking from the Calendar/ Unborn Tomorrow, and dead Yesterday." The titles of Rex Stout's first Nero Wolfe novel—Some Buried Caesar—and Agatha Christie's The Moving Finger were taken from this work, as was Hector Hugh Munro's pen name, Saki. Eugene O'Neill took the title of his only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! from a verse which also contains the line, "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou." FTP name this collection of quatrains translated by Edward FitzGerald and written by Omar Khayyam.
The author says of his scientific work, "'Twas only striking from the Calendar/ Unborn Tomorrow, and dead Yesterday.
The {Rubaiyyat} of Omar Khayyam