# Quote — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

> A book, a woman, and a flask of wine:
>
> The three make heaven for me; it may be thine
>
> Is some sour place of singing cold and bare —
>
> But then, I never said thy heaven was mine.

- Author: [Omar Khayyám](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md)
- Book: [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md)
- Page: 32
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#Le_Gallienne,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1897,_1902)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/a-book-a-woman

## More from this book

> Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/ah-love-could-you.md)

> Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late
>
> Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate,
>
> And make the stern Recorder otherwise
>
> Enregister, or quite obliterate!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/would-but-some.md)

> What! from his helpless Creature be repaid
>
> Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay'd —
>
> Sue for a Debt he never did contract,
>
> And cannot answer — Oh, the sorry trade!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/what-from-his.md)