“Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot —
I think a Sufi pipkin-waxing hot —
"All this of Pot and Potter — Tell me then,
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"”

The Rubaiyat (1120)

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Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048–1131

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