About Omar Khayyam

The name of a Persian poet and thinker of the twelfth century, Omar Khayyam is well known to everyone. His quatrains rubaiyat have a special place in a world culture treasury. Everybody who loves to talk, quotes them — from a wedding attendant to a hermit writer with a lot of life wisdom.

The Appeal of Rubaiyat

For a lot of centuries, rubaiyat have been attracting the beauty admirers with their valuable literary cut. A perfect quatrain by Khayyam contains a whole life experience of a man: here is an amusing argument with Fate as well as sad conversations with Eternity.

Khayyam's Legacy

Khayyam made the rubaiyat genre widely famous, polished this poetic form, and left the ancestors an everlasting message that is full of rare soul freedom.