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.
Tahar Ben JellounFor me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Tahar Ben JellounWhat have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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