From The
Wine of Nishapur
Photographs by Shahrokh Golestan
Omar Khayyam poems translated by Karim Emami
Original caligraphy by Nassrollah Afje'i
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Without wine and saki, the onward cycle of the world amounts to naught;
Without the reed flute humming in the Araghi mode, our life amounts
to naught.
As much as I contemplate the affairs of this world,
I see that pleasure is the best part, and the rest is naught.
