"If poetry could be exhausted, then it would already have been so by the collected water in your cisterns, in past times. Rather, it is the rainfall of the mind: some clouds may vanish, only to be followed by more clouds."
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Translated by Geert Jan van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler, The Epistle of Forgiveness, Vol. 1: A Vision of Heaven and Hell (NYU Press, 2013) p. 265
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Abu Tammam
Abu Tammam (أبو تمام; c. 796/807 - 845) was an Arab Muslim poet. He is well known for compiling the Hamasah, which is considered to be one of the greatest anthologies of Arabic poetry ever assembled.
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