"Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words."
― Tahar Ben Jelloun
Topic(s):
Poetry
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- "My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don’t have to leave."
- "New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate."
- "Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
More In Poetry
- "It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither."― Gerard Manley Hopkins
- "The thing about death is that it’s honest."― Laura Linney
- "Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."― Tiger Woods