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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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.Tahar Ben Jelloun
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
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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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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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