"For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history." ― Tahar Ben Jelloun Topic(s): History More From Tahar Ben Jelloun "Beauty is first and foremost an emotion." "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 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." More In History "There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education."― Will Rogers "Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart."― George Michael "The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I’m on a label that’s not really like that. They’re not trying to dress me up, they’re not trying to do things like that. I feel like I’m sort of separate from that, actually."― Norah Jones