My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will ta…

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system.…

- Tahar Ben Jelloun