Words Worth Noting - September 8, 2023

“Since life passes, whether sweet or bitter,/ Since the soul must pass the lips. Whether in Nishpur or in Balkh,/ Drink wine, for after you and I are gone many a moon/ Will pass from old to new, from new to old.”

Omar Khayyam, cited in Sadegh Hedayat’s deeply disturbed novel The Blind Owl