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

Tahar Ben Jelloun · Poetry

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

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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.

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It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

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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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