The Potter's Circle, where the pots are made, and broken, and made again, is the symbol of life and death.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (FitzGerald translation, paraphrased slightly for conciseness but retaining meaning)
c. 11th-12th century
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