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"&lt;p style=\"margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px\"&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-size:12.8000001907349px\"&gt;I was first drawn to the study of Persian by Rumi and wished to read his poems in Persian and not in English.&amp;nbsp; I attribute much of this desire to a classical education where I was encouraged early in my studies to set English translations aside in spite of the many mistakes I would make in learning to read Latin and Greek.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-size:12.8000001907349px\"&gt;The idea of a site on Khayy\u00E2m occurred to me when I began reading the quatrains attributed to him.&amp;nbsp; I was in my second year of Persian studies. I liked the quatrains and thought that I could read them at this stage.&amp;nbsp; From the readings I prepared translations. This weblog records my rendtions of some of the quatrains, the translations of others and discussion of each quatrain.&amp;nbsp; This is a work in progress, and in this format it has the advantage of revision.&amp;nbsp; Comments are generally philological.&amp;nbsp; In time, a better understanding of Khayy\u00E2m may allow me to return to each quatrain and add further notes.&amp;nbsp; I hope that my notes are helpful to students studying Persian.&amp;nbsp; There is a lack of commentary in English on individual quatrains, and the comments I and others make can begin to fill the void.&amp;nbsp; I encourage those who look at the site to add their comments for my benefit and for the benefit of all site visitors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-size:12.8000001907349px\"&gt;I pass over talking about the dangers of translation.&amp;nbsp; Even though it cannot hope to capture the original, the translation process helps in the understanding of the poem.&amp;nbsp; In the quatrains I have given literal translations in my discussion of each poem.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;My accompanying translations of a particular quatrain, when offered, should be called renditions.&amp;nbsp; In my opinion, some are good ... and as a whole reflect the sentiment expressed in the epigram of Martial on the front page of this weblog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=\"margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px\"&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-size:12.8000001907349px\"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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