It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī,a known as Abū Nuwās was one of the greatest classical Arabic poets, who also composed in Persian on occasion.
