This poet, who exhorted the earth for teaching “the lesson of poverty, / having nothing and wanting nothing,” wrote that the “tongue has one customer, the ear” in a poem whose speaker asserts “Anyone apart from someone he loves / understands what I say.” The speaker laments that “the keeping away is pulling me in” in a poem by this author that opens by asking a “dissolver of sugar” to “dissolve me, / if this is the time.” The disappearance of this poet’s teacher inspired the dedication of many of the 90 ghazals in one of his collections. (10[1])This poet has been cited as the “best-selling poet in the US” due to Coleman Barks’s translations, one of which renders an opening line as “Listen to the story (10[1])told by the reed.” For 10 points, name this Sufi poet of the Masnavi, or Spiritual Couplets. ■END■