Comment by chasil

My favorite Iranian poet, via an Irishman…

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  Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire
  To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
  Would not we shatter it to bits--and then
  Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

https://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html