If you've got a place to live, In these sordid times, a piece of bread, If you're no one's servant, no one's master. Happy are you and truly high in spirit.
These verses belong to the great poet of the East, Omar Khayyam. (May 18, 1048 – December 4, 1131). The image of the great poet of the East is wrapped in legends, and the biography is full of mysteries, riddles. During his lifetime he was known as a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. After his death – as an original poet, author of philosophically – lyrical wise, full of humor, sly quatrains.
The lower a man is in soul, The higher the nose. He's got his nose in there, Where I haven't grown up.
Rubai is one of the most complex genre forms of Tajik-Persian poetry. Khayyam is the consummate master of this genre. In the movie they are performed by Pavel Moskalenko.