I must have been in class seven when my dad made me and my elder sister join some painting classes.Some how before the teacher could teach us oils I was ready with my oil painting,when he tried teaching us waters next day, I went with water color painting and guess what I had painted , inadvertently Omar Khayyam. From that particular day onwards he started ignoring me and for several years I wondered why did he not appreciate my work. Later I gifted that painting to my neighbour, by the time I realised what I had painted it was too late and ever since then I started reading about this great man and his works. The painting still haunts me, at times I wish I could get it back !
Here are few beautiful lines by Omar Khayyam thought of sharing with you all
- Thou hast said that Thou wilt torment me,
- But I shall fear not such a warning.
- For where Thou art, there can be no torment,
- And where Thou art not, how can such a place exist?
- The rotating wheel of heaven within which we wonder,
- Is an imaginable lamp of which we have knowledge by similitude.
- The sun is the candle and the world the lamp,
- We are like forms revolving within it.
- A drop of water falls in an ocean wide,
- A grain of dust becomes with earth allied;
- What doth thy coming, going here denote?
- A fly appeared a while, then invisible he became.
- credits wikipedia
