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"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
Explore more quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun
"To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power."
"What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre."
"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."
"My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible."
"This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue."
"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."
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