Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. -
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. -
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. -
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. -
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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- People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
- Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
- I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
- Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
- Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.