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"I am a Moroccan writer of French expression."
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"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."
"The word in your mouth is anarchy."
"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."
"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."
"And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking."
"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."
"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."
"There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth."
"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."
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"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."
"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."
"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."
"The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."
"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
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