Moving finger writes and having writ moved on

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,…

— Anonymous

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,…

— Omar Khayyám

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,…

— Douglas E. Richards

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

— Omar Khayyam

“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…

— Omar Khayyam

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

— Omar Khayyam

“The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line.”

— Omar Khayyám

“When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger; invisible hands draw back the curtains, a pallid finger writes forgotten words on…

— Yannis Ritsos

“All law is writ in a seed.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the…

— Karen Armstrong

“we rescue our tears from the sea secure them by writ”

— M. Nourbese Philip

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

— John Keats

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

— Galileo Galilei

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

— William Shakespeare