This collection claims that one certainty is that "This life flies" and that "the rest is lies".
This collection claims that one certainty is that "This life flies" and that "the rest is lies". One verse   wishes to remold "this sorry Scheme of Things" to be "nearer to the Hearts's Desire!". A phrase  originating in this work is "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, / Moves on." The twelfth   section of this work makes a comparison between paradise and "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and  Thou". This work was first translated by Edward FitzGerald. Name this collection of 11th- and  12th-century quatrains written in Persian by Omar Khayyam.
This collection claims that one certainty is that "This life flies" and that "the rest is lies".
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám [accept similar answers that include Rubaiyat]