Quote by Omar Khayyam: “A book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread — and thou.”

All the elaborate things humans chase — wealth, status, ambition — dissolve when you imagine having the essentials of beauty alongside someone you love. Poetry, food, nature, and a companion: that is enough for a perfect moment.

Omar Khayyam wrote his quatrains during the Seljuk Empire's rule over Persia, a time of significant scientific and cultural achievement. He worked at the court of Sultan Malik-Shah and contributed to calendar reform while composing the philosophical poems that would make him famous centuries later.

Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet born around 1048 in Nishapur, best known in the English-speaking world through Edward FitzGerald's translation of his Rubaiyat. His quatrains explore pleasure, impermanence, and scepticism toward religious certainty with elegant brevity.