Moving a potter 's wheel and kiln is no easy task .
搬动一个陶工旋盘和一个烧窑可不是一件容易的事。
Who is the potter , pray , and who the pot ?
谁是陶器罐,谁又是陶工?
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter 's oven ?
你那盛酒的杯子不正是在陶工的炉中灼烧过的那只吗?
Gates still adopts personas , but they 're more often modeled after historic black characters like south carolina slave potter dave drake , who famously wrote poems on the shoulders of his pots at a time when black people were forbidden to read .