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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.