Tahar Ben Jelloun

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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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.
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 rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

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