Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
Tahar Ben JellounRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a poet's duty to speak out against social injustices.
Tahar Ben Jelloun highlights the importance of using poetry as a tool for social change. Although he acknowledges that poetry alone may not suffice to alter the world's injustices, he emphasizes the moral obligation to voice opposition against oppression and inaction, as silence in the face of injustice equates to complicity in allowing it to persist.
In practice
During a poetry slam, this quote can be used to introduce a piece focused on social issues.
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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.
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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
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