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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
Explore more quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun
"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."
"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."
"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 do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."
"What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre."
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