Breakfast of Champions on Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: “Here was the poem: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. (quoted from memory by Dwayne, untitled in text; identified as FitzGerald's Rubaiyat quatrain LI)”
The Satanic Verses on Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: “the Yellow (more lucky than me), Khayyám -- FitzGerald's adjectiveless Bird of Time (which has but a little way to fly, and lo! is on the Wing) (title not stated outright; the quoted line is FitzGerald's famous translation of the Rubáiyát)”
Of Human Bondage on Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: “In those days Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam was known only to the elect, and Hayward repeated it to Philip.”