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. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tags: #Poetry, #Injustice, #Silent, #TaharBenJelloun, #French, #Poet
Tahar Ben Jelloun : French Poet
Born: December 1, 1944
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent quest…
If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future pr…
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. James …
Transforming Perspectives: Effective Communication in Urgent Causes
For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of f…
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and p…
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent quest…
If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future pr…
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. James …
Transforming Perspectives: Effective Communication in Urgent Causes
For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of f…
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and p…
The Intersection of Poetry and Daily Rituals: Finding Inspiration in the Mundane
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser…
Personality is everything in art and poetry. Johann Wolfgang…
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of…
Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you…
Poetry is partly sympathy, don’t you think? If it’s any good…
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situa…
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world….
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science…
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look…
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All …
My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to under…
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experie…
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmi…
