Tahar Ben Jelloun's Quotes

Tahar Ben Jelloun's Quotes 18

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come...

Religion has to stay in the heart not in politics. It is private.

Poetry is a form of mathematics a highly rigorous relationship with words.

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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it...

For me poetry is a situation - a state of being a way of facing life and...

I have written about the dispossessed immigrants the condition of women who...

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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for...

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work...

I write about wounds the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny but...

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship jokes and...

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Real friendship like real poetry is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe....

We must have our say not through violence aggression or fear. We must speak...

Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death...

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those...

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice exploitation...

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

People must insist on the right to say no to be alone to stand out from the...