Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

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.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

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

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

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.