Best quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun on Poetry

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

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• ‟ Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

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• ‟ For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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