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The Moving Finger Writes is not a poem but a quotation from a famous poem. It is a stanza, a Quartrain from Omar Khayyam's The Rubaiyat, as translated by Edward Fitzgerald: The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on, nor all your piety or wit Shall lure it back to cancell half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
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"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line." This excerpt is from the poem "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by Persian poet Omar Khayyam. The poem expresses the idea that what is done in the past cannot be changed, so one should live in the present.
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Which book is the phrase the moving finger writes from?
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. is from: Edward Fitzgerald's 1859 translation of the poem The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, :
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