Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. -
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. -
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- People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
- Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
- 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.
- 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.
- Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.