“A jar of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou, and the moonlight of heaven, and the sky.”
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About this quote
The quatrain is one of the most quoted in the Rubaiyat, in Edward FitzGerald's Victorian English which reshaped the Persian originals considerably. It is offered as the sufficient contents of a short life, with the heavens included so that nothing is missing.
Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, FitzGerald translation