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.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.