Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
Religion has to stay in the heart not in politics. It is private.
Poetry is a form of mathematics a highly rigorous relationship with words.
For me poetry is a situation – a state of being a way of facing life and facing history.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
I have written about the dispossessed immigrants the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work so people don't have to leave.
I write about wounds the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship jokes and laughter.
Real friendship like real poetry is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.
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.