Quotes by : Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage....

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

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view....

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

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

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's....

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but....

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

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal....