The woman who uploaded this image of her Rubaiyat tattoocalls it “my creed.” The quatrain goes like this (her translation): Don’t remember the last day,Don’t cry for the future,In the past and in the future don’t believe,Live today and don’t lose, in the wind, your life. Over at Informed Comment, Juan Cole—a professor of History at the University of Michigan and an astute analyst of the nexus between Middle Eastern and American politics—has been translating poems of the great 11th century Persian poet, mathematician and philosopher Omar Khayyam.Read More